- Usage in publication:
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- Salisbury granite
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Granite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
Coarse moderately gneissic granite in which quartz is always either magnificently undulant or entirely granulated is here named Salisbury Granite, for Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Salisbury Plutonic Suite*
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
The Salisbury Granite of Chayes (1952) is here revised as the Salisbury Plutonic Suite in the Charlotte and Carolina slate belts, NC. It includes the Salisbury granite pluton and also the Yadkin, Southmont, Gold Hill, and Kannapolis plutons in Rowan, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, and Davidson Cos., described as syntectonic Salisbury-type granites by Butler and Fullager (1978, GSA Bull., v. 89, p. 460-466), and other small intrusive bodies. The Salisbury pluton is representative and consists of light-gray, locally pink, medium- to coarse-grained, weakly foliated, leucocratic granite. Small intrusive bodies in the Carolina slate belt in Union and Anson Cos., and border facies of granite in the eastern Charlotte belt consist of porphyritic rhyolite in a fine-grained groundmass of quartz and feldspar. Age is Silurian and Devonian, based in Rb-Sr whole rock ages of 400 Ma.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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