The Mulberry Rock Gneiss, here named, is a pre- to synmetamorphic intrusive body at the Allatoona fault, the boundary between the Piedmont and Blue Ridge in the Greater Atlanta Region, GA. It consists of equigranular muscovite-quartz-microcline-plagioclase orthogneiss. Age is Paleozoic.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
The Mulberry Rock Gneiss of the New Georgia Group of McConnell and Abrams (1984), is here USGS accepted as the Mulberry Rock Gneiss. It is a trondhjemite body in the Ropes Creek thrust sheet in northwestern GA. Age is mostly Cambrian.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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