Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Intrenchment Creek Quartzite (GA) reallocated to Barrow Hill Formation. See Barrow Hill.)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic and/or early Paleozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops in excavations for the landfill beneath the powerline, just west of Intrenchment Creek, Southeast Atlanta quadrangle, De Kalb Co., GA (Higgins and Atkins, 1981).
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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