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Geologic Unit: Mount Rogers

Usage:

Mount Rogers Formation of Crossnore Complex (NC*,TN*,VA*)


Subunits:

Fees Rhyolite Member (VA*), Buzzard Rock Member (VA*), Whitetop Rhyolite Member (VA*), Wilburn Rhyolite Member (VA*)


Geologic age:

Neoproterozoic*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Occurs on Mount Rogers, highest peak in VA, located on Smyth-Grayson Co. line, 16.5 mi west of western boundary of Gossan lead district (Stose and Stose, 1944).


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 ([ ]).