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Geologic Unit: Whetstone
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Whetstone Group
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Metasandstone
    • Schist
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Hatcher, R.D., 1969, Stratigraphy, petrology, and structure of the low rank belt and part of the Blue Ridge of northwesternmost South Carolina, IN Griffin, V.S., and Hatcher, R.D., Jr., A guide to the geology of northwestern South Carolina; Field trip guidebook 9: South Carolina Division of Geology, Geologic Notes, Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip, October 3-5, 1969, v. 13, no. 4, p. 105-147.


Summary:

Whetstone Group described in Oconee Co., northwest SC, as metamorphosed sediments including quartz-oligoclase-biotite-muscovite metasandstone and muscovite-biotite-quartz-oligoclase schist. Age is late Precambrian.

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


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