Horse Branch Member of Ammons Formation of Great Smoky Group of Ocoee Supergroup (NC)
Neoproterozoic
Type section: continuous roadcut along Horse Branch, a tributary of Panther Creek, about 0.5 km south of NC Route 28, Swain Co.[?], western NC (Mohr, 1973).
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
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