Usage:
McManus Formation of Albemarle Group (NC)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
McManus quarry in Stanly Co., central NC, on County Road 1963, 0.3 mi north of its intersection with County Road 1964 (Conley and Bain, 1965).
Reference locality: (1) near Albemarle, on south side of NC Highway 27 bypass, 100 yds east of its intersection with NC Highway 52; (2) at Bakers quarry in Union Co., about 5 mi west of Monroe on south side of U.S. Highway 74. Present only west and southwest of Troy anticlinorium (Conley and Bain, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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