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  • Usage in publication:
    • Fayetteville Phyllite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Phyllite
    • Metasandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Tull, J.F., 1985, Stratigraphy of the Sylacauga Marble Group, IN Tull, J.F., and others, eds., Early evolution of the Appalachian Miogeocline; Upper Precambrian-Lower Paleozoic stratigraphy of the Talladega slate belt: Alabama Geological Society Annual Field Trip Guidebook, November, 22-23, 1985, no. 22, p. 21-26.


Summary:

The Fayetteville Phyllite of the Sylacauga Marble Group (as defined by Tull, 1982) is here named in the southwestern part of the Talladega slate belt. It consists of tan to maroon, calcareous metasiltstone, in places finely laminated and interbedded with metasandstone, and bounded above and below by thick carbonate units with which it is gradational. Overlies the Jumbo Dolomite and underlies the Shelvin Rock Church Formation, both of the Sylacauga Marble Group. Equivalent to part of the Rome Formation of Early to Middle Cambrian age.

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


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