Usage:
Shoal Gneiss (VA*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Extreme southwestern part of Gossan Lead district, Grayson Co., southwestern VA. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Shoal Creek (Stose and Stose, 1957).
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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