Usage:
Fodderstack Sandstone Member of Redoak Mountain Formation (TN*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian; Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Little Fodderstack Mountain, Petros 7.5-min. quadrangle, [approx. Lat. 36 deg. 06 min. 19 sec. N., Long. 84 deg. 23 min. 46 sec. W., Anderson-Morgan Co. line], where it forms a bench on which a trail encircles the mountain [now mined] (Wilson and others, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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