Usage:
Sewanee Conglomerate of Crab Orchard Mountains Group (TN*)
Sewanee Sandstone of Breathitt Group (KY*)
Sewanee Conglomerate of Pottsville Group (GA)
Geologic age:
Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian; Westphalian A; Morrowan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in and around town of Sewanee, Franklin Co., eastern TN (Wilson and others, 1956).
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 ( ).
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