Usage:
Raccoon Mountain Formation of Gizzard Group (TN*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TN: Flat Rock Member, Norwood Cove Member.
Geologic age:
Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian; Namurian; early Morrowan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on a mine road beginning 0.4 mi northwest of Whiteside, Marion Co., and leading to strip mines at head of Scratch Ankle Hollow, Shellmound quadrangle, eastern TN (Wilson and others, 1956).
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.
"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 ([ ]).