Usage:
Alligator Back Formation (NC*,VA*)
Alligator Back Metamorphic Suite (NC,VA)
Alligator Back Formation of Lynchburg Group (VA)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic and/or early Paleozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures on Bluff Mountain (Alligator Back), Lat. 36 deg. 25 min. 02 sec. N., Long. 81 deg. 11 min. 02 sec. W., Whitehead quadrangle, Alleghany Co., northwestern NC (Rankin and others, 1973).
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 ([ ]).