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  • Usage in publication:
    • Sweetwater Creek Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Phyllite
  • 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 Sweetwater Creek Formation of the Great Smoky Group is here named in the Greater Atlanta Region, GA. It consists of poorly sorted, coarse, blue-quartz conglomeratic sandstone and graphitic phyllite. Gradationally overlies the Etowah Formation, with the boundary placed where coarse clastics constitute more than 50% of the unit. Gradationally underlies the Dean Formation. Age is Late Proterozoic and (or) early Paleozoic.

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


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