Usage:
Vowell Mountain Formation (TN*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TN*: Frozen Head Sandstone Member, Pilot Mountain Sandstone Member.
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Cross Mountain, Lake City quadrangle, Anderson Co., eastern TN. Named from Vowell Mountain, a spur on east side of Cross Mountain (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.
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