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Geologic Unit: Rottenwood Creek
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Rottenwood Creek Quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartzite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Higgins, M.W., and McConnell, K.I., 1978, The Sandy Springs Group and related rocks in the Georgia Piedmont; nomenclature and stratigraphy, IN Sohl, N.F., and Wright, W.B., Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature by the U. S. Geological Survey, 1977: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1457-A, p. A98-A105.


Summary:

The Rottenwood Creek Quartzite of the Sandy Springs Group is here named. It gradationally overlies the Factory Shoals Formation, and is the uppermost unit of the Sandy Springs. It is a massive, muscovite-bearing quartzite, up to 50 m thick.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Rottenwood Creek Quartzite†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Higgins, M.W., Atkins, R.L., Crawford, T.J., Crawford, R.F., III, and Cook, R.B., 1984, A brief excursion through two thrust stacks that comprise most of the crystalline terrane of Georgia and Alabama: Georgia Geological Society Guidebook, 19th Annual Field Trip, October 12-14, 1984, v. 4, no. 1, 67 p.


Summary:

Rottenwood Creek Quartzite of the Sandy Springs Group is here abandoned because mapping has shown it to be part of the Chattahoochee Palisades Quartzite.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Rottenwood Creek†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

McConnell, K.I., and Abrams, C.E., 1984, Geology of the greater Atlanta region: Georgia Geologic Survey Bulletin, no. 96, 127 p.


Summary:

The Rottenwood Creek Quartzite of the Sandy Springs Group is here abandoned because work in the type area of the Sandy Springs shows that the Chattahoochee Palisades Quartzite and the Rottenwood Creek are exposed parts of a single unit repeated by folding. All rocks are assigned to the Chattahoochee Palisades.

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


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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