Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of the †Snellville Formation (GA) reallocated to Chattahoochee Palisades Quartzite and †Factory Shoals Formation [now informal "aluminous schist unit"] of Sandy Springs Group, and Powers Ferry Member of Stonewall Gneiss. See Chattahoochee Palisades, Sandy Springs, and Powers Ferry.)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic and/or early Paleozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Large roadcut outcrops on Lanier Mountain, Snellville quadrangle, Gwinnett Co., GA. Named from exposures within the city limits of Snellville (Higgins and Atkins, 1981).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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