Usage:
Tennessee Mountain Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
Cambrian or Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on Tennessee Mountain where a typical sequence can be observed northeastward from Sunflower Reservoir, across Waterlog Summit, east of Slate Creek, to Tennessee Mountain, Rowland quadrangle, Elko Co., NV. Named from Tennessee Mountain (Bushnell, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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