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Biotite quartz-plagioclase gneiss

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Biotite quartz-plagioclase gneiss with minor interlayers of amphibolite gneiss and mica schist
State South Carolina
Name Biotite quartz-plagioclase gneiss
Geologic age Paleozoic or Neoproterozoic
Lithologic constituents
Major
Metamorphic > Gneiss > Biotite-gneiss
Incidental
Metamorphic > Amphibolite
Metamorphic > Schist > Mica-schist
Comments Carolina Slate Belt and Charlotte Belt, layered and stratified rocks
References

Horton, J.Wright, and Dicken, Connie L., 2001, Preliminary Geologic Map of the Appalachian Piedmont and Blue Ridge, South Carolina Segment: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 01-298, CD, scale 1:500,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr01298
Counties Abbeville - Fairfield - Greenwood - Laurens - McCormick - Newberry