Usage:
Crossnore Complex (NC*,TN*,VA*)
Crossnore Intrusive Suite (NC,VA)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Brown Mountain Granite (NC*), Catoctin Formation (VA*), Grandfather Mountain Formation (NC*,TN*), Linville Metadiabase (NC*,TN*), Mount Rogers Formation (NC*,TN*,VA*).
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: west limb of Blue Ridge anticlinorium, near Crossnore, Avery Co., NC (Rankin and others, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
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 ([ ]).