Usage:
Sandymush Felsic Gneiss (NC)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops along NC Highway, 63, 2,000 ft west of confluence of Sandymush Creek and Little Sandymush Creek, Buncombe Co., NC. Named from community in Sandymush quadrangle (Merschat and Wiener, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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