Usage:
Wise Formation (VA*)
Subunits:
Robbins Chapel Member (VA*). Keokee Member (VA*). Clover Fork Member (VA*). Marcum Hollow Member (VA*). Rockhouse Valley Member (VA*). Cannelton Shale Member (VA). Betsie Shale Member (VA*). Kendrick Shale Member (VA*). Reynolds Sandstone Member (VA*). Magoffin Member (VA*).
Geologic age:
Early to Middle Pennsylvanian (Morrowan to Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Wise Co., VA (Campbell, 1893).
Type section: along VA Highway 160 from mouth of Looney Creek at Appalachia, Wise Co., westward to crest of Big Black Mountain on VA-KY State line, Appalachia quadrangle, Miller (1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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