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Geologic Units: Burks Mountain
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    • Burks Mountain complex
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  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Cocker, M.D., 1991, Geology and origin of a talc prospect in the Burks Mountain complex, Columbia County, Georgia, IN Pickering, S.J., Jr., ed., Proceedings of the symposium on the economic geology of the southeastern industrial minerals: Georgia Geologic Survey Bulletin, Symposium, Atlanta, GA, April 6, 1989, no. 120, p. 107-133., Prepared in cooperation with GSA Southeastern Section


Summary:

Burks Mountain complex is a narrow band of elongate pods of mafic and ultramafic rocks extending over a strike-length of 20 mi from Richmond Co. and Columbia Co., GA, into SC. Unit is located within upper amphibolite grade migmatitic metamorphic rocks of the Kiokee belt in the southeastern part of the Piedmont province. Includes sepentinite, metagabbro, talc and several types of amphibolite. Complex may be a slice of the Iapetus ocean crust or possibly a layered ultramafic/mafic plutonic complex.

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


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