Usage:
Rockhouse Valley Sandstone Member of Wise Formation (VA*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from feature [Rockhouse Creek] in northeast corner of Pennington Gap 7.5-min quadrangle, Harlan Co., eastern KY. Well exposed on abandoned road to stripping of Pardee coal bed up right (west) fork of Rockhouse Valley; [southwest of Holmes Mill, west fork of Rockhouse Creek, approx. 2,560 ft elevation, Lat. 36 deg. 51 min. 33 sec. N., Long. 83 deg. 00 min. 58 sec. W., Pennington Gap 7.5-min quadrangle, Harlan Co., eastern KY] (Miller and Roen, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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