Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Factory Shoals Formation (GA) reallocated to informal "aluminous schist unit" of Sandy Springs Group. See Sandy Springs.)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Proterozoic, Late
Cambrian
Ordovician, Early(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along Sweetwater Creek at Factory Shoals, Fulton Co., GA (Higgins and McConnell, 1978).
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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