Usage:
Wildcat Valley Sandstone (TN*,VA*)
Geologic age:
Devonian, Early*
Devonian, Middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Two miles south-southeast of Big Stone Gap, Wise Co., VA, on spur overlooking Wildcat Creek, 0.15 mile south of Irondale Church on U.S. Highway 23. Name derived from Wildcat Valley (Miller and others, 1964).
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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