Usage:
No current usage.
(†Atlanta Group (GA) abandoned.)
Subunits:
Inman Yard Formation; Wolf Creek Formation; Promised Land Formation and its Hannah Member; Norcross Gneiss; Clairmont Formation; Senoia Formation; Wahoo Creek Formation Stonewall Formation; Clarkston Formation and its Fairburn and Tar Creek Members; Big Cotton Indian Formation; Intrenchment Creek Quartzite; Camp Creek Formation. (of Higgins and Atkins, 1981)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: area around Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA. (Higgins and Atkins, 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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