Usage:
Stockstill Sandstone Member of Indian Bluff Formation (TN*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian; Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on TN Highway 116 between Petros and Armes Gap, Morgan Co., eastern TN. Named from Stockstill Creek (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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).