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Geologic Unit: Poor Mountain

Usage:

Poor Mountain Formation (SC,GA)


Geologic age:

Precambrian
Proterozoic, Late
Cambrian


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

From a high point on Poor Mountain to a low point on a dale of Rich Mountain, Oconee Co., northwestern SC (Sloan, 1905).


AAPG geologic province:

Piedmont-Blue Ridge province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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