Usage:
Cranberry-Mine Layered Gneiss (NC)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Cranberry Iron Mine, near town of Cranberry, Lat. 36 deg. 08 min. N., Long. 81 deg. 58 min. W., Elk Park 7.5-min quadrangle, Avery Co., NC (Bartholomew and Lewis, 1984).
Reference locality: outcrop on NC Highway 194, 0.25 mi east of its junction with U.S. Highway 19E, 1 mi northeast of Cranberry Mine (Bartholomew and Lewis, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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