Usage:
Albemarle Group (NC*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NC: Cid Formation*, Floyd Church Formation*, McManus Formation, Tillery Formation*, Yadkin Formation*.
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not designated.] Named from exposures near city of Albemarle, Stanly Co., in Carolina slate belt west of Deep River-Wadesboro Triassic basin, central NC (Conley and Bain, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).