Usage:
Comers Granite Gneiss (VA*)
Comers Gneiss of Forge Creek Suite (VA)
Geologic age:
Proterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: wide area in northwestern part of Elk Creek anticline, northwest of Point Lookout Mountain. Named from village of Comers Rock, southwestern VA (Stose and Stose, 1957).
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 ( ).
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