Usage:
Mount Rogers Formation of Crossnore Complex (NC*,TN*,VA*)
Subunits:
Fees Rhyolite Member (VA*), Buzzard Rock Member (VA*), Whitetop Rhyolite Member (VA*), Wilburn Rhyolite Member (VA*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Occurs on Mount Rogers, highest peak in VA, located on Smyth-Grayson Co. line, 16.5 mi west of western boundary of Gossan lead district (Stose and Stose, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge 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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