Usage:
Spring Creek Granitoid Gneiss (NC)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Roadside outcrops along NC Highway 63, from 0.4 to 1.2 mi northwest of Doggett Gap, Sandymush quadrangle, Madison Co., NC. Named from community in Spring Creek quadrangle, Madison Co. (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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