Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of the †Andy Mountain Formation (GA) reallocated to Chattahoochee Palisades Quartzite of Sandy Springs Group and "Cherokee alteration zone" of the Ropes Creek Metabasalt. See Chattahoochee Palisades and Ropes Creek.)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic and/or early Paleozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Andy Mountain, 1.5 mi west of Winston, Winston 7.5-min quadrangle, Douglas Co., west-central GA. Named from Andy Mountain (Abrams and McConnell, 1981).
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.
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