Usage:
Roopville Formation of Heard Group (GA,AL)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Proterozoic, Late
Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on GA Highway 5 in Roopville, Carroll Co., GA (Bentley and Neathery, 1970).
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.
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