Usage:
Snowbird Group of Ocoee Supergroup (GA*,NC*,TN*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Longarm Quartzite (NC*,TN*), Metcalf Phyllite (TN*), Parr Branch Formation (GA), Pigeon Siltstone (NC*,TN*) or Pigeon Slate (TN*), Pinelog Formation (GA), Rich Butt Sandstone (NC*,TN*), Roaring Fork Sandstone (NC*,TN*), Wading Branch Formation (NC*,TN*).
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Pigeon River at southwest and south base of Snowbird Mountain, Haywood Co., western NC (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 ([ ]).