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Geologic Unit: Goldmine Branch

Usage:

Goldmine Branch Formation (GA*)


Geologic age:

Precambrian(?)*
Proterozoic, Late(?)*
Cambrian*
Ordovician, Early*
Ordovician, Middle(?)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: saprolite outcrops in roadside ditches along first unpaved road to the east from GA Highway 101/113 south of Yorkville radio (microwave) towers, Yorkville 7.5-min quadrangle, Paulding Co., northwestern GA (Crawford and others, in press).


AAPG geologic province:

Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates usage by the U.S. Geological Survey. Other usages by state geological surveys.

"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 does not conform with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005). This may be explained within brackets ([ ]).