- Usage in publication:
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- Volunteer gneiss
- Modifications:
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- Overview
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gneiss
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
The informal Volunteer gneiss of McConnell (1988) is contained in the lowermost thrust sheet exposed in the Sauratown Mountains anticlinorium, NC. Unit is composed of several varieties of granitoid gneiss. Mapped, in part, by Espenshade and others (1975) as Elk Park Plutonic Suite. Middle Proterozoic age is based on presence of epidosite similar to that observed in the Miller Creek complex (informal).
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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