Usage:
High Shoals Granite (NC*)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at High Shoals on the South Fork Catawba River, Lat. 35 deg. 23 min. 48 sec. N., Long. 81 deg. 12 min. 05 sec. W., Gaston Co., NC (Horton, 1984).
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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