Light-gray to moderate-reddish-orange clayey, gravelly fine to very coarse sand; massive mottled sandy clay; local wood and leaf beds; and thin beds of indurated sandstone. Gravel consists mainly of quartz and quartzite and range in size from very fine pebbles to large cobbles. Mapped eats of the Tallapoosa River.
Blastomylonite, mylonite gneiss, locally includes mylonite schist and mylonite quartzite in Towaliga fault zone.
Layered and massive amphibolite; locally includes hornblende migmatite and ultramafic pods.
Unnamed unit comprised of masses of medium- to coarse-grained muscovite-biotite schist, locally garnetiferous; grades into oa.
Variably mylonitized coarse-grained biotite-muscovite-oligoclase gneiss with large potassium feldspar augen.
Fine-grained biotite-oligoclase gneiss intermixed with coarse-grained muscovite-biotite schist; locally contains muscovite-rich pegmatite.
Leucocratic, fine to medium-grained, well-foliated quartz monzonite to granite; locally porphyritic.
Interlayered muscovite-quartz schist and quartzite, locally contains garnet, sillimanite and graphite; commonly intensely shared.
Muscovite-quartz schist; locally contains biotite-garnet-muscovite schist, many layers conatin sillimanite (northeast of Mount Jefferson, Lee County); kyanite (west of Mount Jefferson); locally muscovite-rich schist and quartzite common.
Feldspathic muscovite-biotite schist and quartz-diorite gneiss; locally contains lenses of muscovite-graphite schist and amphibolite; commonly cut by feldspathic veins and pegmatites.
Leucocratic quartz-rich quartz diorite pencil gneiss.
Biotite-epidote quartz diorite gneiss and biotite-hornblende gneiss; locally includes migmatitic amphibolite; cut by numerous granitic veins.
Feldspathic biotite-hornblende gneiss with thin layers of amphibolite, calc-silicate rock, garnet quartzite, and muscovite schist; locally rich in manganese.
Light-greenish-gray to yellowish-gray cross-bedded, well-sorted, micaceous, fine to medium quartz sand that is fossiliferous and glauconitic in part and contains beds of greenish-gray micaceous, silty clay and medium-dark-gray carbonaceous clay. Light-gray glauconitic fossiliferous sand, thin beds of sandstone, and massive accumulations of fossil oyster shells occur locally in the upper part of the formation in western AL (Tombigbee Sand Member). In eastern AL thin to thick-bedded accumulations of the fossil oyster Ostrea cretacea Morton occur throughout much of the formation.
Quartzite containing minor mica, feldspar, and pyrite; locally arkosic; commonly sheared.
Mylonite and blastomylonite; contains minor ultramylonite, mylonite schist, and mylonite gneiss.
Varicolored fine to coarse quartz sand containing clay lenses and gravel in places. Gravel composed of quartz and chert pebbles and assorted metmorphic and igneous rock fragments in streams near the Piedmont. In areas of the Valley and Ridge province gravel composed of angular to subrounded chert, quartz, and quartzite pebbles. Coastal deposits include fine to medium quartz sand with shell fragments and accessory heavy minerals along Gulf beaches and fine to medium quartz sand, silt, clay, peat, mud and ooze in the Mississippi Sound, Little Lagoon, bays, lakes, streams, and estuaries.
Quartz monzonite to granite gneiss in dikes and sheets with wide migmatite zones at contacts.
Camp Hill Granite Gneiss - coarse to medium-grained foliated granite to quartz diorite (tonalite) gneiss, locally biotite-rich; locally contains thin amphibolite pods and lenses. Boundary between Rock Mills Granite Gneiss and Camp Hill Granite Gneiss arbitrarily defined.
Unnamed unit comprised of masses of epidote-hornblende-oligoclase mylonitic gneiss and amphibolite.
Crushed schistose rock; includes sericite-graphite-rich rocks.
Interlayered biotite-epidote-muscovite-quartz schist, metagraywacke, and quartzite.
Light-gray coarse to fine-grained dolomite marble; locally rich in phlogopite.
Leucocratic, massive epidote-muscovite quartz diorite to granodiorite; weak flow banding, sharp contacts.
Varicolored lenticular beds of poorly sorted sand, ferruginous sand, silt, clay, and gravelly sand. Sand consists primarily of very fine to very coarse poorly sorted quartz grains; gravel composed of quartz, quartzite, and chert pebbles.
Mylonite and ultramylonite
Biotite gneiss