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| COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 48 MAY/AUGUST 2002 NO. 2/3 A GUIDE...GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY John Marr and Roy Sites Virginia has a very interesting and varied geologic history...in unique and exotic geologic terranes. Across Virginia, the landscape exhibits all rock types: igneous...the Division of Mineral Resources offices. 10 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES VOL. 48 Figure |
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| ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................Other gneiss quarries......................................... CHAPTER III. GRANITES OF VIRGINIA ......................................... The Virginia Piedmont region .......................................77 77 CONTENTS. 5 CHAPTER III. GRANITES OP VIRGINIA Continued. PageScientific discussion Continued |
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| GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, and VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...ted States. I. Hubert, Marilyn L. II. Jussen, Virginia M. III. Title. IV. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1564 1986...Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, and Virginia M. ,Jussen INTRODUCTION This lexicon contains... 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico |
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| VIRGINIA DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIGITAL REPRINT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF...OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY Wilbur A. Nelson BULLETIN 77 Adobe Acrobat® Reader® Adobe Acrobat Reader version...rendering of Geology and Mineral Resources of Albemarle County by Wilbur Nelson is to make accessible an out of...appear to show the bookmark pane is viewable. Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy Division...500 Charlottesville, VA 22903 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
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| NOVEMBER 1992 VOL. 38 INTERESTING USES OF STONE IN VIRGINIA - PART I Harry W. Webb' and Palmer C. Sweet e...towers. Schist, conglomerate. diabase, gabbro, gneiss, granite, greenstone,limestone, dolomite,marble...and soapstone have been or are being quarried in Virginia. Some 350 interesting uses of dimension stone...stone uses in Virginia include amphibolite schist, conglomerate, diabase, gabbro, gneiss,granite, greenstone...soapstone. The quarrying of most dimension stone in Virginia is uneconomical today because of the relatively |
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| Geological Survey Mail Stop 928 National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 James C. Izzell, Jr. Patterson Exploration...fault zone, eastern Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia.................................................Jonesboro fault where it crosses U.S. Highway 70, Wake County, North Carolina..................................Joseph R. Wilson Ground-water resources of Wake County, North Carolina..................................F. Stoddard, and David E. Blake Stop 9-Lineated gneiss (Falls leucogneiss)........................... |
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| the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |
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| the James River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1008 Geology...oftheJatnes River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...____________________________________ Lynchburg gneiss and associated igneous rocks________________ Evington...metamorphic rocks within the district__ Age of Lynchburg gneiss and associated greenstone and soapstone_______...property_____________________________________ Campbell County__________________________________________ |
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| Depositional Sequences of Northern and Central Virginia, by A. S. Furcon -----------------------·----...Sequatchie in the Chickamauga Limestone in Walker County, Georgia. In northwestern Georgia Butts and Gildersleeve...Formation in the Chickamauga Limestone in Dade County, Georgia. There, Croft (p. 8) divided the Chickamauga...established by Miller and Brosge (1954) in southwestern Virginia and mapped in the northwestern part of the Tennessee...Beekmantown (Kingsport-Mascot) of Tennessee and Virginia and the Cotter and Powell Limestones of Arkansas |
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| Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville.... . . . . . . . . iii Sandy Level Quadrangle, Virginia: Its Geology and Regional Interpretation (C.R.... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Johnson) 33 Geologic History of the Henderson Gneiss, Western North Carolina (R. E. Lemmon). . . . ... 49 Cataclastic Zone Associated with the Davie County Triassic Basin (D. V. Milton). . . . . . . . . |
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| sedimen tary rocks from south central Georgia to Virginia. In the North Carolina Piedmont, most zeolites...Nello Teer quarry, Durham Diabase sill (Triassic) X X Western Rowan Co., (Woodleaf quarry) Diortte...X North quarry, west of Winston Salem, Forsyth Co. Foliated granite to hornblende gneiss X X calcite...epidote Stokesdale quarry, 1 mile west NC 158, Guilford Co. Biotite-hornblende gneiss cut by mafic dikes...Jamestown quarry, off County Road 1147, 1.5 miles east of 1-85, Guilford Co. Hornblende gneiss and metagranite |
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| ...........................................80 Virginia ................................................Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont...talc deposits in Archean marbles interlayered with gneiss, quartzite, and other metamorphic rocks. Granulite...number of ultramafic pods enclosed in Proterozoic gneiss. Hydrothermal alteration has formed serpentinite...marble with talc and tremolite. Talc deposits in Virginia are all derived from ultramafic rocks and are |
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| Pleare return thie publication to the Virginia Geological Survey when you have ao furthcr uc for it....COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Bulletin 38 Kyanite in Virginia Geology of the Kyanite Belt of Virginia lrY ANNA I. JONAS Economic...JOEL H. W.ATKINS UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA t932 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATTON...DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Gaolosist Bulletin 38 Kyanite in Virginia Geology |
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| been North Carolina, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, Alabama, Georgia, and Idaho...Mr. Persons's attention was directed to Jackson County by someone in Philadelphia who had seen a crystal...In the fall of 1867 Mr. Persons went to Jackson County and learned from Mr. Davies the location of favorable...Jackson County, the Reed mine in Tran sylvania County, and the Triplett mine in Wilkes County, all in...mapped by Keith a the Carolina gneiss and the Roan gneiss. The Carolina .gneiss includes most of the gneisses |
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| western belt has been traced from east-central Virginia for 600 miles southwestward into Alabama; and...and certain granitic gneisses of the Carolina gneiss. Some of the associated pegmatites also contain...the results of this work in the five states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and...General features The Piedmont province in northern Virginia has a width of about 40 miles, increasing southwestward...reconnaissance surveys are incomplete. Geologic maps of Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama, on a scale of 1:500,000 |
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| FRONTISPIECE PLATE I STONE MOUNTAIN, DEKALB COUNTY, GEOHGIA, I6 MILES NORTHEA T O F ATLANTA , 0 TilE...Island . South Carolina Tennessee Vermont . . . Virginia . . . CHAPTER II 33 34 34 34 35 36 36 36 37 37...Heard County . . . . . . . 65-68 The Flat Rock Quarry . 66 The Wynn Quarry . . . . 6S Troup County . .... . . . . • 69-70 The Mountville Quarry • 70 Meriwether County . . . • • 70-SJ Granite • o • • • • • •...• 7I The Tigner Quarry. . . . . . . . • . 73 The Greenville Granite Company's Quarry 74 Flat Shoals |
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| Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |
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| granofels (felsic volcaniclastic) ORDOVICIAN BARNARD GNEISS Oba Fine-grained, dark-green amphibolite; minor...lagioclase gneiss Obf Gray to white, medium-grained, biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss possible felsic... Pegmatite Ygg Granitic gneiss CH Ygp Felchville trondhjemite gneiss-gray to whitish gray, medium-...finegrained, biotite trondhjemite gneiss I Yhd Hornblende dioritic gneiss O Yhda Fine-grained, equigranular...homblende-plagioclase amphibolite Q Yt Biotite trondhjemite gneiss at Terrible Mountain I Metasomatic or Migmatitic |
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| ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |
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| mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |
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| (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) Anne Witt (Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy) Rick...faulting associated with the Boone fault, Vulcan Boone quarry 7 Stop 1-2 Rock slide on NC-105 Boone, North...Appalachian State University 63 Stop 2-4. Blowing Rock Gneiss near Bailey Camp, NC on US-321 67 Research Articles...Vorticity and Kinematic Indicators in the Blowing Rock Gneiss in the Grandfather Mountain window, North Carolina...Stewart, and Biryol) 109 storm event in Watauga County, North Carolina (Witt and Wooten) Landslides and |
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| Mica gneiss Mica schist Hornblende gneiss Granite gneisses Precambrian ( ?) Unnamed granite gneiss Granite...Granite gneiss complex Henderson granite gneiss Cranberry granite gneiss Blowing Rock gneiss Max Patch granite...granite gneiss Beech granite gneiss Granites and mafic igneous rocks Paleozoic (?) Dunite Granite Syenite...Upper Precambrian (?) or Lower Paleozoic (?) Stokes County and Kings Mountain belt Kings Mountain group Lower...relatively small area in the northwest corner of Ashe County. The Carolina Slate belt consists of volcanic-sedimentary |
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| 250-12,460 ft, sec. 14, T. 45 S., R. 27 E., Lee County, Fla. Named for the nearby Able Canal. The Able...Accomack Member of the Omar Formation Pleistocene Virginia, Maryland Atlantic Coast basin Mixon, R.B., 1985...Cenozoic deposits in the southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...H-20, northwest of Wattsville, northern Accomack County, Va. Reference sections: facies E and F, sand pits...Wattsville, Persimmon Point, and Accomack, Accomack County, Va. The informal Accomack beds of Mixon and others |
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| General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |
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| -------------·.. ·----------------- _ Lithonia gneiss ____________________ _ Metamorphic Rocks ________________________...schist and muscovite quartzite __ .___ Biotite gneiss ----------------------·-· ---------------------··------·-..._____ Biotite-hornblende gneiss ...... _ ----------· Porphyroblastic biotite gneiss _ ....... __ Minor rock...---------- .. .. 34 Structures of the Lithonia Gneiss. ___ ·-·----------34 Banding _________________...Structures of selected exposures of the Lithonia gneiss 41 v CONTENTS Page Structures of the Metamorphic |
