Usage:
Hammett Grove Meta-igneous Suite (SC)
Subunits:
Pacolet Soapstone, South Goucher Metapyroxenite, North Goucher Metagabbro, and White Plains Metabasalt (SC)
Geologic age:
Paleozoic, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Boulder exposures located approx. 435 m S. 70 deg. W. of Hammett Grove Branch, 675 m S. 13 deg. E. of Hammett Grove Church, and about 75 m southwest of Hammett Grove Road, Pacolet quadrangle, Spartanburg Co., SC. Named from Hammett Grove Branch (Mittwede, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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