Usage:
Crowders Creek Metaconglomerate Member of Battleground Formation (NC*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Cliff exposures at a bend in Crowders Creek, 180 m north of its junction with Squirrel Branch, midway between Crowders Mountain and the town of Kings Mountain, Lat. 35 deg. 13 min. 58 sec. N., Long 81 deg. 18 min. 25 sec. W., Gaston Co., south-central NC (Horton, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
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