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

Hatcher, R.D., Jr., 1979, The Coweeta Group and Coweeta syncline; major features of the North Carolina-Georgia Blue Ridge: Southeastern Geology, v. 21, no. 1, p. 21-23.


Summary:

Persimmon Creek Gneiss of Coweeta Group named in Rabun Co., GA. Consists of orthoclase-quartz-biotite gneiss, either massive or interlayered with metasandstone and biotite-muscovite-quartz schist. Texture is coarse and even-grained. Forms exfoliated cliffs. Divided into informal lower and upper members. Thickness ranges from 1,300 to 2,000 m. Overlies Tallulah Falls Formation; underlies Coleman River Formation of Coweeta Group. Age is late Precambrian(?).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Persimmon Creek Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Peper, J.D., Lesure, F.G., Cox, L.J., and D'Agostino, J.P., 1991, Geology, geochemistry, and mineral resource assessment of the Southern Nantahala Wilderness and adjacent roadless areas, Rabun and Towns Counties, Georgia, and Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1883, 30 p.


Summary:

Coweeta Group and its Persimmon Creek Gneiss, Coleman River Formation, and Ridgepole Mountain Formation are used informally in this report (local usage of Hatcher, 1979). Age changed from Late Proterozoic to Late Proterozoic and early Paleozoic. All formations are found in Richard Russell thrust sheet, east of Shope Fork fault.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Persimmon Creek Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Nelson, A.E., Horton, J.W., Jr., and Clark, J.W., 1998, Geologic map of the Greenville 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-2175, 2 sheets, 12 p., scale 1:250,000


Summary:

Rocks mapped as unnamed quartz diorite to tonalitic gneiss in this report may correlate with Persimmon Creek Formation of Hatcher (1979) in NC.

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


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