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Geologic Unit: Pyburn

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Pyburn Limestone Member of Olive Hill Formation (TN*) replaced with /Ross Limestone member [informal] of Ross Formation. See Ross.)


Geologic age:

Early Devonian*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures in Pyburn Bluff, Hardin Co., western TN (Foerste, 1903).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch*


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