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Geologic Unit: Rob Camp

Usage:

Rob Camp Limestone (TN*,VA*)
Rob Camp Limestone of Chickamauga Group (TN)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*


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

Exposures 0.5 mi north of Rob Camp Church in Rose Hill district. Church is in northwest corner of Hancock Co., TN, 3 mi south of Lee Co., VA line (Miller and Brosge, 1954).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).