- Usage in publication:
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- Shelvin Rock Church Formation
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Marble
- Phyllite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
The Shelvin Rock Church Formation of the Sylacauga Marble Group (as defined by Tull, 1982) is here named in the Talladega slate belt, AL. It consists of interlayered pink and white pelitic marble and locally carbonaceous gray calcareous phyllite. Overlies the Fayetteville Phyllite and underlies the Gooch Branch Chert, both of the Sylacauga Marble Group. Correlative with the Cambrian Conasauga Formation and possibly with the upper part of the Rome Formation and the lower part of the Knox Group.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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