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  • Usage in publication:
    • Spruce Pine alaskite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Alaskite
    • Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Hunter, C.E., and Mattocks, P.W., 1936, Geology and kaolin deposits of Spruce Pine and Linville Falls quadrangles, North Carolina, IN Clay resources of Tennessee Valley Authority region; Part 1: Tennessee Valley Authority, Division of Geology Bulletin, no. 4, p. 10-23.


Summary:

Name Spruce Pine alaskite introduced in this report for extremely coarse-textured granite that outcrops around the town of Spruce Pine in Mitchell Co. and in smaller areas in Brushy Creek and Ingalls sections of Avery Co., NC. Contains a small amount of biotite locally. Feldspar crystals as much as 2 ft across are quite common. No age stated.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Spruce Pine pluton
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Brown, P.M. (chief geologist), 1985, Geologic map of North Carolina: North Carolina Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000


Summary:

Unit treated informally on the NC State map. Age given as Devonian (390 m.y.).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Spruce Pine Alaskite*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Goldsmith, Richard, Milton, D.J., and Horton, J.W., Jr., 1988, Geologic map of the Charlotte 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle North Carolina and South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1251-E, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_21331.htm]


Summary:

Spruce Pine Alaskite mapped in this report. Age given as Late Ordovician(?) to Early Devonian.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Spruce Pine Plutonic Suite*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Rankin, D.W., Black, D.F.B., Boyer, S.E., Daniels, D.L., Goldsmith, R., Grow, J.A., Horton, J.W., Jr., Hutchinson, D.R., Klitgord, K.D., McDowell, R.C., Milton, D.J., Owens, J.P., and Phillips, J.D., 1991, Transect E-4, central Kentucky to Carolina Trough: Geological Society of America, The Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), Continent-Ocean Transect Series, 16, 2 sheets, 41 p., scale 1:500,000, North American Continent-Ocean Transect Program explanatory pamphlet


Summary:

The usage of the name Spruce Pine Alaskite is abandoned and the name Spruce Pine Plutonic Suite is applied to a more inclusive unit previously defined by Rankin and others (1973) and called the Spruce Pine plutonic group. The new Suite includes the rocks of the abandoned Spruce Pine Alaskite.

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


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