Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Hiram Member of Ropes Creek Metabasalt (GA*) included in unnamed part of Ropes Creek Metabasalt. See Ropes Creek.)
Geologic age:
Late Proterozoic(?) to Middle Ordovician(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along road parallel to Seaboard Coast Line RR tracks from BM 1028 to the Popular Springs Church, in the town of Hiram, Dallas 7.5-minute quadrangle, Paulding Co., GA (GNU records, USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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