Usage:
Pinelog Formation of Chilhowee Group (GA*)
Pinelog Formation of Snowbird Group of Ocoee Supergroup (GA)
Subunits:
Vineyard Mountain Member (GA*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic[?] to Early Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. First described in the Cartersville district where it forms Pinelog [spelled Pine Log on White East 7.5-min quadrangle], Pine, and eastern part of Brushy Knob and Signal Mountains, Bartow Co., northwestern GA (LaForge, 1919).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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