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Geologic Unit: Red Top Mountain

Usage:

Red Top Mountain Formation of Allatoona Complex (GA*)


Geologic age:

Precambrian*
Proterozoic, Early(?)*
Proterozoic, Middle*
Proterozoic, Late(?)*


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

Exposures along the shore of Lake Allatoona in Red Top Mountain State Park, Allatoona Dam 7.5-min quadrangle, Bartow Co., GA (Higgins and others, 1988).


AAPG geologic 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 ([ ]).