- Usage in publication:
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- Dixon Gap Metaconglomerate Member*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Conglomerate
- Metaconglomerate
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
The Dixon Gap Metaconglomerate Member of the Battleground Formation is here named in the Kings Mountain belt, NC and SC. It was previously included in the Draytonville Conglomerate Member of Keith and Sterrett (1931), and was described as informal "bed C" by France and Brown (1981). It consists of quartz-pebble metaconglomerate. Overlies quartz-sericite schist and underlies the Jumping Branch Manganiferous Member of the Battleground. Age is Late Proterozoic.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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