Usage:
Cloudland Granulite Gneiss (NC,TN)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures near a parking lot off the access road at the intersection of TN State Highway 143 and NC State Highway 261, from Carvers Gap to the top of Roan Mountain, Bakersville 7.5-min quadrangle, Mitchell Co., NC. Named from Cloudland Resort on Roan Mountain (Gulley, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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