- Usage in publication:
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- Table Rock Plutonic Suite*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gneiss
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
The Table Rock Plutonic Suite, here named, includes granite, granitoid, and granitoid gneiss bodies throughout the Inner Piedmont block in SC, NC, and possibly GA. Members are listed in index under Subunits. The name, Table Rock Granite of Sloan (1907, 1908), is part of the Caesars Head Granite of the Table Rock Plutonic Suite, and is here abandoned. Rocks of the suite are predominantly biotite granitoid gneiss and gneissic granitoid, ranging in composition from monzogranite to granodiorite. Age is Late Ordovician to Early Silurian based on Rb-Sr whole-rock ages and zircon ages.
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.
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