Usage:
Heflin Phyllite (AL)
Geologic age:
Paleozoic, early
Paleozoic, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along U.S. Highway 78 from northeast margin of Talladega Belt, eastward to Skyway Road (Highway 49), and south-eastward along U.S. Highway 431. Named from town of Heflin, Cleburne Co., east-central AL (Bearce, 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.
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