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  • Usage in publication:
    • Chestatee Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Amphibolite
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

German, J.M., 1985, The geology of the northeastern portion of the Dahlonega gold belt: Georgia Geologic Survey Bulletin, no. 100, 41 p.


Summary:

The Chestatee Member of the Canton Formation, here named in the Dahlonega area, GA, was previously mapped as the Roan Gneiss by Keith (1909). It consists of amphibolite, hornblende-plagioclase gneiss, muscovite-biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, and muscovite-pyrite-plagioclase-quartz gneiss. The Chestatee is in sharp contact with metagraywacke of the Helen Member of the Canton to the southeast and in fault contact with biotite-quartz schist of the Palmer Creek Member of the Canton to the northwest. Age is Late Proterozoic and (or) early Paleozoic.

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


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