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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tar Creek Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Schist
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Higgins, M.W., and Atkins, R.L., 1981, The stratigraphy of the Piedmont southeast of the Brevard zone in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, IN Wigley, P.B., ed., Latest thinking on the stratigraphy of selected areas in Georgia; Volume 1: Georgia Geologic Survey Information Circular, no. 54-A, p. 3-40.


Summary:

The Tar Creek Member is here named the upper member of the Clarkston Formation of the Atlanta group in the area from East Point to Palmetto, GA, in the northwest limb of the Newnan-Tucker synform. It consists of purple-pink weathering muscovite schist and ocher-weathering amphibolite, like the Clarkston, undivided. Overlies the Fairburn Member of the Clarkston; underlies the Camp Creek Formation with sharp and conformable contact. Intruded by the Union City Complex and Palmetto Granite. Thickness is 400 to 1,500 m. Age is Late Proterozoic and (or) early Paleozoic.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tar Creek Member†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Higgins, M.W., Atkins, R.L., Crawford, T.J., Crawford, R.F., III, Brooks, Rebekah, and Cook, R.B., Jr., 1988, The structure, stratigraphy, tectonostratigraphy, and evolution of the southernmost part of the Appalachian Orogen, Georgia and Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1475, 173 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:500,000)


Summary:

The Tar Creek Member of the Clarkston Formation is here abandoned because it is identical with the Clarkston Formation, undivided.

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


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