Named for Coleman River, Dillard quad, Rabun Co., north-central GA. Consists of metasandstone, meta-arkose, and quartz-feldspar gneiss with interlayers of pelitic schist. Metasandstone is medium grained, foliated, thinly laminated or "pinstriped." Overlies Persimmon Creek Formation; underlies Ridgepole Mountain Formation. [Age is late Precambrian(?), Late Proterozoic(?).]
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
Coweeta Group and its Persimmon Creek Gneiss, Coleman River Formation, and Ridgepole Mountain Formation are used informally in this report (local usage of Hatcher, 1979). Age changed from Late Proterozoic to Late Proterozoic and early Paleozoic. All formations are found in Richard Russell thrust sheet, east of Shope Fork fault.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
Rocks mapped as quartzofeldspathic gneiss member of Richard Russell Formation probably correlate with Coleman River Formation of Hatcher (1979) in NC.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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