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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherryville quartz monzonite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartz monzonite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Griffitts, W.R., and Overstreet, W.C., 1952, Granitic rocks of the western Carolina Piedmont: American Journal of Science, v. 250, no. 11, p. 777-789.


Summary:

Pg. 783-786, 787. Cherryville quartz monzonite. A monazite-free rock in which three varieties have been recognized: the commonest, a gray even-grained massive to faintly gneissic muscovite-biotite rock; a muscovite-quartz monzonite; and a quartz-biotite. Unit was included in Whiteside granite as mapped by Keith and Sterrett (USGS Bull. 660-D, 1931); hence, Whiteside granite is herein restricted to area of its type locality. Considered to be very late Paleozoic and younger than Toluca quartz monzonite (new).
Named from exposures near Cherryville, Gaston Co., western NC.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 751-752).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherryville quartz monzonite*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Overstreet, W.C., and Griffitts, W.R., 1955, Inner Piedmont belt (North Carolina-South Carolina), IN Russell, R.J., ed., Guides to southeastern geology, with supplemental field guide covering physiography and geology along U.S. Highway 90 from New Orleans to Lafayette [Louisiana]: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, 68th annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, p. 549-577.


Summary:

Pg. 566. Cherryville quartz monzonite. A probable Devonian age (about 285 Ma) was obtained on a sample of monazite from the Cherryville quartz monzonite.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 751-752).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherryville quartz monzonite*
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Stuckey, J.L., and Conrad, S.G., 1958, Explanatory text for geologic map of North Carolina: North Carolina Division of Mineral Resources Bulletin, no. 71, 51 p.


Summary:

(J.L Stuckey, 1958, Geol. Map of North Carolina, scale 1:500,000). Cherryville quartz monzonite. Mapped as Paleozoic.
[GNC remark (ca. 1960, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200, p. 752): The USGS currently designates the age of the Cherryville as Mississippian(?) to Permian(?) on the basis of a study now in progress. (See Overstreet and Bell, 1965.)]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 751-752).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherryville Quartz Monzonite*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Overstreet, W.C., and Bell, Henry, III, 1965, The crystalline rocks of South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1183, 126 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:500,000), See also USGS Misc. Geol. Inv. Ser. Map I-413, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000


Summary:

Pg. 68, 89 (geol. time scale), 91 (table 7), 94 (table 8), 109-110. Cherryville Quartz Monzonite. Age changed from Devonian(?) --to-- Mississippian(?) to Permian(?) on basis of Lead-alpha age determination. (Authors follow revised time scale of Holmes, 1959, Edinburgh Geol. Soc. Trans., v. 17, pt. 3, p. 183-216.)

Source: Publication; Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature, 1964 (USGS Bull. 1224-A, p. A17).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherryville Quartz Monzonite*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Horton, J.W., Jr., 1981, Geologic map of the Kings Mountain belt between Gaffney, South Carolina, and Lincolnton, North Carolina, IN Horton, J.W., Jr., Butler, J.R., and Milton, D.J., eds., Geological investigations of the Kings Mountain belt and adjacent areas in the Carolinas: Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, October 24-25, 1981, no. 16, p. 6-18, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:250,000)


Summary:

Age of the Cherryville changed to Late Mississippian on the basis of Kish's (1977) Rb-Sr whole rock age of 341+/-11 Ma.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cherryville Granite*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Age modified
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Goldsmith, Richard, Milton, D.J., and Horton, J.W., Jr., 1988, Geologic map of the Charlotte 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle North Carolina and South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1251-E, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_21331.htm]


Summary:

Name Cherryville Quartz Monzonite changed to Cherryville Granite to conform to IUGS classification and nomenclature of igneous rocks. Rb-Sr whole rock age is 351 +/-10 Ma based on data from Kish (1983, unpub. Ph.D thesis). Age is Mississippian.

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


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