Usage:
Skillern Chert Member of Rockwood Formation (TN*)
Geologic age:
early Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures along Skillern Creek and its tributaries and in Skillern Cove along TN Highway 30, about 5 km southeast of Pikesville, Bledsoe Co., south-central TN (Milici and Wedow, 1977).
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.
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