GEOLEX database Geologic Unit: Hiram Usage: Hiram Member of the Ropes Creek Metabasalt (GA*) Age: Cambrian* Geologic Province: Piedmont-Blue Ridge province* Areal Extent: GA* Type Locality: Type section: along road parallel to Seaboard Coast Line RR tracks from BM 1028 to the Popular Springs Church, in the town of Hiram, Dallas 7.5-minute quadrangle, Paulding Co., GA (Higgins and others, in press). Unit Name History: Named (Higgins and others, in press). Note: If you need more information, please contact Nancy Stamm (nstamm@usgs.gov). Asterisks (*) indicate usage by the U.S. Geological Survey. Other usages by state geological surveys. "No current usage" implies that a name has been abandoned or that it has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses (). Slashes (/) indicate unit name usage violates the 1983 North American Stratigraphic Code. This violation may be explained within brackets ([ ]). U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA URL http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngmdb/ngm_catalog.ora.html Database project personnel Last modified: 7-Jan-2007