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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hanover Schist
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Schist
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Neathery, T.L., 1975, Rock units in the High-Rank belt of the northern Alabama Piedmont, IN Neathery, T.L., and Tull, J.F., eds., Geologic profiles of the northern Alabama Piedmont: Alabama Geological Society Annual Field Trip Guidebook, December, 1975, no. 13, p. 9-47.


Summary:

Hanover Schist of Hatchet Creek Group named in east-central AL. Consists of quartz muscovite schist and staurolite biotite feldspathic gneiss. Structurally underlies Wedowee Group in northeastern Coosa Co. Age is early to middle Paleozoic.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hanover Schist
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Raymond, D.E., Osborne, W.E., Copeland, C.W., and Neathery, T.L., 1988, Alabama stratigraphy: Geological Survey of Alabama Circular, no. 140, 97 p.


Summary:

Hanover Schist of Hatchet Creek Group is an interbedded sequence of coarse- to fine-grained (staurolite+/-)-albite-biotite-sericite-quartz-muscovite schist and (staurolite+/-)-biotite-feldspar gneiss, with garnet, chlorite, and sillimanite as common accessory minerals. Some units include graphitic feldspathic schist, hornblende quartzite, and thin amphibolite. Sericite commonly occurs as fibrous elliptical porphyroblastic aggregates. Locally, the schist is saturated with leucocratic granitoid rock.

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


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