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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cloudland Granulite Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Geochronologic dating
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Gulley, G.L., Jr., 1985, A Proterozoic granulite-facies terrane on Roan Mountain, western Blue Ridge belt, North Carolina-Tennessee: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, no. 11, p. 1428-1439.


Summary:

The Cloudland Granulite Gneiss is here named on Roan Mountain in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. It is a garnetiferous granulite gneiss, intruded by the Bakersville Gabbro. Age is Middle Proterozoic, based on Rb-Sr ages.

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


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