Usage:
Pride Mountain Formation (AL*,MS*)
Subunits:
(ascending): Alsobrook Member (AL*,MS*), Tanyard Branch Member (AL*,MS*), Wagnon Member (AL*,MS*), Southward Spring Sandstone Member (AL*,MS*), Sandfall Member (AL*,MS*), Mynot Sandstone Member (AL*,MS), Green Hill Member (AL*,MS*).
Subsurface: Evans and Lewis cycles (MS,AL).
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on northeastern slope of Pride Mountain, located about 2 mi east of Pride, Colbert Co., AL, and 0.5 mi south of U.S. Highway 72, in SE/4 sec. 15, T. 4 S., R. 12 W. (Welch, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin*
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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