Usage:
No current usage.
(†Hurricane Graywacke of Ocoee Supergroup (GA,NC,TN) considered obsolete.)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Little Hurricane Creek and at settlement of Hurricane, at junction of the creek with Big Laurel Creek (Asheville quadrangle), 6 mi northeast of Hot Springs, western NC (Stose and Stose, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Appalachian basin
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).