Usage:
Caesars Head Granite of Table Rock Plutonic Suite (SC*)
Caesars Head Granite (GA*,NC*,SC*)
Geologic age:
Ordovician(?) or early Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Hogback Mountain, Greenville Co., northwest SC. Named from summit known as Caesars Head, westernGreenville Co. (Hadley and Nelson, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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