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  • Usage in publication:
    • Jeff Davis granite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Clarke, J.W., 1952, Geology and mineral resources of the Thomaston quadrangle, Georgia: Georgia Geologic Survey Bulletin, no. 59, 99 p.


Summary:

Garnetiferous biotite granite intrusive into metasediments overlying quartzite member of Manchester formation here referred to as Jeff Davis granite. Batholith underlies large part of central and eastern parts of Thomaston quad., Upson Co., northwestern GA. Age is Precambrian.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Jeff Davis "Granite"
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Sears, J.W., Cook, R.B., Gilbert, O.E., Jr., and and others, 1981, Stratigraphy and structure of the Pine Mountain window in Georgia and Alabama, IN Wigley, P.B., ed., Latest thinking on the stratigraphy of selected areas in Georgia; Volume 1: Georgia Geologic Survey Information Circular, no. 54-A, p. 41-53.


Summary:

Age given as approximately 1 b.y. [Middle Proterozoic].

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Jeff Davis Granite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Odom, A.L., Kish, S.A., and Russell, C.W., 1985, U-Pb and Rb-Sr geochronology of the basement rocks in the Pine Mountain belt of southwest Georgia, IN Kish, S.A., Hanley, T.B., and Schamel, Steven, Geology of the southwestern Piedmont of Georgia; [No. 5]: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, 98th annual meeting, Orlando, FL, October 28-31, 1985, p. 12-47.


Summary:

Part assigned in this report to Woodland Granite.

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


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