- Usage in publication:
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- Carvers Gap Granulite Gneiss
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gneiss
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
- Appalachian basin
Summary:
The Carvers Gap Granulite Gneiss is here named for outcrops at Carvers Gap on Roan Mountain in the Elk River massif in the Blue Ridge of NC and TN. It consists of four intergradational units, layered granulite gneiss, massive granulite gneiss, layered amphibolite gneiss, and non-layered amphibolite gneiss, as well as granitoid segregations and pyroxenite nodules. Intruded by dikes of Late Proterozoic Bakersville Gabbro. Age is Middle Proterozoic based on Rb-Sr ages.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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