No current usage.
(Rocks of †Briceville Formation or †Briceville Shale (TN) reallocated to Slatestone Formation. See Slatestone.)
Early to Middle Pennsylvanian
Named from occurrence at Briceville, Anderson Co., eastern TN (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Appalachian basin
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