Usage:
Whitesburg Limestone (TN*,VA*)
Whitesburg Limestone Member of Blockhouse Shale (TN*)
Whitesburg Limestone Member of Blockhouse Shale of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Subunits:
Fetzer Member (TN)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Two miles southeast of Whitesburg, Hamblen Co., and 1.5 miles southwest of Bulls Gap, TN (Ulrich, 1930).
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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