Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Pilot Knob Sandstone Member of †Anderson Formation (TN) replaced with Pilot Mountain Sandstone of Vowell Mountain Group. See Pilot Mountain.)
[Name preempted.]
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian; Atokan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures on Pilot Knob, Briceville region, Northern Tennessee coal field, northern TN (Glenn, 1925).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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