The heavy mineral assemblage of Horn Island is highly diagnostic of a metamorphic source area. The crystalline metamorphic region in east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia which is drained by the South Alabama and Apalachicola Rivers and their respective tributaries is suggested as the ultimate source area for the heavy minerals of Horn Island.

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