Usage:
Allatoona Complex (GA*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in GA*: Corbin Metagranite, Crawfish Schist, Red Top Mountain Schist, Rowland Spring Formation.
Geologic age:
Proterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures along the shore of Lake Allatoona, east of Cartersville, Bartow Co., GA (Higgins and others, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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 ([ ]).