Usage:
Wayne Formation (MS,TN*)
Wayne Group (AL,TN*)
Subunits:
Maddox (TN), Osgood Limestone (TN), Laurel Limestone (TN*), Waldron Clay (TN*), Lego Limestone (TN*), and Dixon Limestone (TN*) Members of Wayne Formation; Osgood Limestone (TN), Laurel Limestone (TN), Waldron Shale (TN), Lego Limestone (TN), and Dixon Formation or Limestone (TN) of Wayne Group
Geologic age:
Silurian (Llandovery to Ludlow)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Wayne Co., western TN (Miser, IN Drake, 1914).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
Upper Mississippi embayment*
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 ([ ]).