Usage:
Border Gneiss (VA)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops on Tye River, 650 m north of junction with VA Highways 151 and 56, Horseshoe Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, Nelson Co., VA. Origin of name not stated (Sinha and Bartholomew, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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