Geology and Minerals

Churchland Plutonic Suite

The Churchland Plutonic Suite is a large granite body located in central North Carolina. Granites here date to the late Paleozoic as the supercontinent Pangea was in its compressional stage. This formation is also known as a post-metamorphic, Alleghanian-age granite plutons. Magma generation was related to shear zone melt during the late Alleghenian Orogeny.

Also on this shelf

See also

• ▸Coprates quadrangle
• ▸Bloody Saturday (photograph)
• ▸Ellicott City Granodiorite

Uncatalogued shelf

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