Usage:
Frozen Head Sandstone Member of Vowell Mountain Formation (TN*)
Spelled Frozenhead in early reports.
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian; Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures on Frozen Head Mountain, Petros quadrangle, Morgan Co., northern TN (Glenn, 1925).
[U.S. Board on Geographic names gives Frozen Head as correct spelling.]
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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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 ( ).
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