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Geologic Unit: Pigeon

Usage:

Pigeon Siltstone of Snowbird Group of Ocoee Supergroup (NC*,TN*)
Pigeon Slate of Snowbird Group of Ocoee Supergroup (TN*)


Geologic age:

Neoproterozoic*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures near West Fork of Little Pigeon River, Sevier Co., eastern TN (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
Type section (Pigeon Siltstone): along Little Pigeon River between Richardson Cove and Pittman Center, Sevier Co., eastern TN (King and others, 1958).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin*
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*


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 conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).