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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherokee limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Sloan, Earle, 1908, Catalogue of mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Bulletin, 4th series, no. 2, 505 p.


Summary:

Pg. 432. Cherokee limestone. Under heading "Cherokee zone," referred to but did not define, Cherokee limestone and upper Cherokee limestone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 416).


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

Jonas, A.I., 1932, Structure of the metamorphic belt of the southern Appalachians: American Journal of Science, 5th series, v. 24, no. 141, p. 228-243.


Summary:

Pg. 237. †Cherokee limestone. "Cherokee limestone" of Sloan was called Gaffney marble by Keith [which Miss Jonas assigns to pre-Cambrian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 416).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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