Poteet Limestone (TN*,VA*, and KY*-subsurface)
Poteet Limestone of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*
Exposures along a woods lane at base of bluff overlooking Powell River 0.2 miles north of suspension footbridge at Poteet Ford, Lee Co., VA (Miller and Brosge, 1954).
Appalachian basin*
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