Tectonics of the Virginia Blue Ridge and Piedmont Culpeper to Richmond, Virginia

Title Page
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Copyright
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Introduction......Page 5
Regional Tectonics......Page 9
Late Precambrian/Cambrian Rifting and the Cambrian Rift-to-Drift Transition......Page 14
Albemarle - Nelson Suite: Ultramafic Intrusive Rocks, and Mafic Dikes, Sills, Lavas and Tuffs; Late Precambrian to Early Cambrian Post 650 - 570 Ma......Page 19
Depositional model for Late Precambrian to Early Cambrian Laurentian Continental Margin......Page 21
Late Precambrian/Early Ordovician History ofthe Exotic Carolina Terrane......Page 22
Events Leading up to Middle and Late Ordovician Collision Taconic Orogenybetween Carolinia and Laurentia.......Page 25
Latest Ordovician, Silurian and Early Devonian Drift......Page 27
Early Devonian - Early Mississippian Acadian Orogeny: A Manifestation of Oblique Collision......Page 28
Early Mississippian/Permian AlleghanianHercynian Orogeny......Page 30
Origin of Middle and Late Paleozoic Plutons......Page 31
Conclusions......Page 32
Acknowledgements......Page 33
STOP # 1-1 BUNKER HILL FORMATIONLATE PRECAMBRIAN, LYNCHBURG GR.NEAR CULPEPER, VA.......Page 34
STOP # 1-2 LOWER SANDSTONEMEMBER OF THE MONUMENTAL MILLS FORMATION LATE PRECAMBRIAN,LYNCHBURG GR. NEAR CULPEPER, VA......Page 35
STOP # 1-3 UPPER SILTSTONE MEMBEROF THE MONUMENTAL MILLS FORMATION LATE PRECAMBRIANLYNCHBURG GR. NEAR CULPEPER, VA.......Page 36
STOP # 1-4 THOROFARE MOUNTAIN FORMATION OF THE LATE PRECAMBRIANLYNCHBURG GROUP NEAR CULPEPER,VA.......Page 37
STOP # 1: CATOCTIN FORMATION, EARLY CAMBRIAN?, RIFT FACIES......Page 39
STOP # 2-3 HAMPTON FORMATIONEARLY CAMBRIAN OF THE CHILHOWEE GROUP......Page 40
STOP # 2-4. CHARNOCKITE AND GRANULITE, PEDLAR FORMATION,GRENVILLE BASEMENT......Page 41
STOP # 2-5. GRENVILLE-AGE BIOTITE PLAGIOCLASE GNEISS AND LATE PRECAMBRIAN RIFT-RELATED GRANODIORITE DIKES, LOVINGSTON MASSIF......Page 43
STOP # 2-7: LATE PRECAMBRIAN ULTRAMAFIC ROCK IN THE LYNCHBURG FORMATION AT THE SCHUYLER QUARRY......Page 44
STOP # 3-1 MOUNT ATHOS FM. EARLY CAMBRIAN, EVINGTON GROUP, JAMES RIVER......Page 45
STOP# 3-2. SLIPPERY CREEK GREENSTONE, EARLY CAMBRIAN,EVINGTON GROUP, AT OXFORD FURNACE......Page 47
STOP# 3-3. CANDLER FM EARLY CAMBRIAN, NORTH SIDE OF THE JAMES RIVER AT STAPLETON,NEAR LYNCHBURG, VA.......Page 48
STOP# 3-4. JOSHUA SCHIST AND ARCHMARBLE EARLY PALEOZOIC- CAMBRIAN?EVINGTON GROUP, AT GALTS MILL......Page 49
STOP # 4-1 SHORES COMPLEX AND MELANGE NEAR SHORES, VA......Page 50
STOP # 4-3. ARVONIA FORMATION LATE ORDOVICIAN AT THE YANCEY SLATE QUARRY NEAR ARVONIA, ARVONIA QUADRANGLE, VA.......Page 51
STOP # 5-2. CONTACT BETWEEN GRENVILLE AGE STATE FARM GNEISS AND SABOT AMPHIBOLITE......Page 53
STOP # 5-4. THE HYLAS MYLONITE ZONE, ALLEGHANIAN DEXTRAL TRANS PRESSION......Page 54
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