Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Briceville Formation or †Briceville Shale (TN) reallocated to Slatestone Formation. See Slatestone.)
Geologic age:
Early to Middle Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from occurrence at Briceville, Anderson Co., eastern TN (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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.
"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 does not conform with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005). This may be explained within brackets ([ ]).