Usage:
Elk Park Plutonic Suite (NC*)
Elk Park Supersuite (NC)
/Elk Park Plutonic Group (VA)
Subunits:
Cranberry Gneiss (NC*), Blowing Rock Gneiss (NC*), and Wilson Creek Gneiss (NC*)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from the village of Elk Park, Avery Co., NC (Rankin and others, 1973).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).