Usage:
Mineral Bluff Formation (GA,NC,TN)
Mineral Bluff Group (GA,NC)
Considered informal by the USGS. For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Subunits:
Group status (alphabetical) --all in GA,NC: Fort Butler Mountain Formation, Harshaw Bottom Quartzite, Marble Hill Hornblende Schist, Mission Mountain Formation, Peachtree Creek Formation.
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Proterozoic, Late
Cambrian(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Vicinity of Mineral Bluff, Mineral Bluff quadrangle, Fannin Co., northern GA; Cherokee Co., southwestern NC; and Polk Co., southeastern TN (Hurst, 1955).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).