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Geologic Unit: Beverly
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Beverly Granite Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Granite
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Cazeau, C.J., and Brown, C.Q., 1963, Guide to the geology of Pickens and Oconee Counties, South Carolina: Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, October 26-27, 1963, no. 5, p. 31-40, (incl. geologic maps), Also issued as South Carolina Div. Geol., Geologic Notes, v. 7, no. 5. Available online


Summary:

Unit described as generally light gray with medium to coarse equigranular texture. Probably equivalent to Westminster pluton. Mapped in Pickens Co. Age is early Paleozoic.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beverly†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

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