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The Carolina Slate Belt is highly deformed, highly metamorphosed, and highly eroded. The ash and pyoclastics came from higher level volcanoes that have long since been eroded away. The granites and diorites you refer to may be remnant "roots" of these volcanoes. "May" because some of these were intruded later or were intruded as plutons that never had a surface expression as a volcano.