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Geologic Unit: Big Cotton Indian

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Big Cotton Indian Formation (GA) reallocated to "mixed unit of the allochthonous assemblage" and Stonewall Gneiss. See Stonewall.)


Geologic age:

Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures near Big Cotton Indian Creek and its tributaries, Jonesboro 7.5-min quadrangle, Clayton 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.

"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 ([ ]).