 | | Journal (issue) | | No. 2 ROAD LOG OF THE GEOLOGY OF FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA W. E. Nunan The following road log is a guide...features along or near main roads in Frederick County, Virginia. Distances and cumulative mileages between...geology of the County is presented in "Geology and Mineral Resources of Frederick County" by Charles Butts...Butts and R. S. Edmundson, Bulletin 80 of the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. The publication...immediately preceding stops. The Frederick County road map of the Virginia Department of Highways, and the U. |  | | Report (issue) | | York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin 18 20 22 26 40 41 42 43 47 53...United States east of the Mississippi River and west of the Blue Ridge Province, other igneous-metamorphic...(predominantly sphalerite, galena, barite, fluorite, calcite, dolomite, and cryptocrystalline quartz) has been...Commonly associated minerals include fluorite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, iron sulfides, celestite, and...south (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and southern Virginia) Very few occurrences and no large deposits of |  | | Report (volume) | | c Quadrangles, M lryland, Pennsylvania, a d West Virginia ! GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bl! LLETIN ; Prepared...Creek Quadrangles, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia By WALLACE nE WITT, ]R., and GEORGE W. COLTON...Shale__________________________________________ Tonoloway Limestone____ ____ __ _______ _____ _____ __ __...CREEK QUADRANGLES, MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, AND WEST VIRGINIA By WALLACE DE WITT, JR., and GEORGE W. CoLTON...Maryland and contiguous parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The exposed strata consist of about 8,000 feet |  | | Report (volume) | | of Some Sedimentary Rocks of Paleozoic Age in Virginia By ERIC R. FORCE and LESLIE j. COX A. Manganese...Contents of Some Lower Paleozoic Carbonate Rocks of Virginia, by Eric R. Force B. Manganese Contents of Some...Rocks of Silurian and Devonian Ages in Northwest Virginia, by Leslie J. Cox U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...of some sedimentary rocks of Paleozoic Age in Virginia I by Eric R. Force and Leslie J. Cox. p. em. ~...sedimentary~ Virginia~Analysis. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic~ Paleozoic. 3. Manganese ores~Geology~Virginia. I. Cox |  | | Book | | B. White Editor The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia Fifty Years of Exploration and Science 123 Cave...World Series editor James W. LaMoreaux, Tuscaloosa, USA For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11987...B. White Editor The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia Fifty Years of Exploration and Science A Contribution...Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA USA Additional material to this book can be downloaded...geologist, best known for writing Caves of West Virginia, casts about for the best locations in the Appalachians |  | Cecil, C.B., Brezenski, David, Dulong, F.T., Repetski, J.E., Eble, C.F., Fedorko, Nick (1998) Allocyclic controls on Paleozoic sedimentation in the central Appalachian basin. Open-File Report Vol. 1998 (98-577) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr98577 | Report (issue) | | Middle and early Late Pennsylvania strata, 1-68, west flank of Chestnut Ridge, WV. Stop 13 Late Pennsylvania...Kentucky Geological Survey, and Nick Fedorko, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. This trip originates...Paleozoic sedimentation and stratigraphy along an east-west transect across the Appalachian Basin from Washington's...Washington's Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia to Pittsburgh International Airport in western...of the Blue Ridge. The Blue Ridge of northern Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania consists of a large |  | | Report (issue) | | ............... . 185 General features ofthe Tonoloway and Helderberg limestones .............. , ............ : ....................... . 187 Tonoloway limestone .. ~ ....... _. ____ .... _._ ... _. ___......... __,_........ . 193 Correlation of the Tonoloway limestone ......................................~ ...................... ~ ... . 196 Formations west of the Helderberg Mountains ....................................... . 204 Local sections ofthe Tonoloway and Helderberg limestones ................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | E L E S T I T E IS B E L L W O O D , B L A I R County, Pennsylvania. It was col lected there by a German...collecting celestite in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. Location The Susquehanna quarry of the Koppers Company...north-northwest of East Salem, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. The quarry can be reached by tak ing the Thompsontown...then turning west onto Pennsylvania R t . 325. Travel about 200 feet and turn right onto Quarry Road to the...the main entrance of the operation. Since the quarry is situated on a hill, the tailing piles can be |  | | Report (issue) | | Anne' (Kline's quarry), Edward Carper (Soister mine), Betty and John Clauser (Edison quarry), Thomas O'Neil...Bluff), Donald Schmerling (York Stone and Supply Co. quarry), and Joseph Varady (Jug Hollow mine). Additional...by Martin Anne (Kline's quarry and Medusa), Bryon Brookmeyer (Blue Ball quarry), George Buchannon (Whim...Perkiomen mine), Betty and John Clauser (Edison quarry and especially New Galena), Thomas O'Neil (a generous...Bluff), Donald Schmerling (York Stone and Supply Co. quarry), and Joseph Varady (Ecton, Jug Hollow, and Wheatley |  | | Report (issue) | | Winchester 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, West Virginia and Virginia by A.J. Froelich1 , Michael F. Hoffman1........ Site no. 10, South Branch Potomac River, Romney ................ Summary of coring operations,...Geophysical logs of two core holes (sites 4 and 6), West Virginia. Figure 23. X-ray diffractograms of clays in...Appalachian Valley and Ridge province of West Virginia and Virginia in the Winchester 30 x 60 minute quadrangle...principal north-flowing tributaries in the West Virginia and Virginia parts of the Winchester 30 x 60 minute |  | | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Published by Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 49 AUGUST/NOVEMBER...NOS. 3 & 4 EOCENE IGNEOUS ROCKS NEAR MONTEREY, VIRGINIA: 1 A FIELD STUDY Jonathan L. Tso2 and John D.... Surber2 The igneous rocks of Highland County, Virginia have fascinated geologists for over 100 years...surroundings. Highland County lies within the Valley and Ridge geologic province in western Virginia (Figure 1). |  | | Report (issue) | | .. . (B) The N e~ngton moraine, Maine, ' New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, by F Katz and Arthur Keith...Maine ........................... . 16· VIII. A, West side of inner slope of Newington moraine on Bay...18. miles northeast of Las Cruces, N. Mex.;· B, West face of Sandia Mountains at Bernalillo, N. Mex ...XV. Views on east side of San Andres Mountains, west of · Alamogordo, N.Mex.: A, View looking east out...... . 33 XVI. A, West face of Caballos Mountains near Apache Canyon, Sierra County, N. Mex.; B, 34 Paleozoic |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonoloway Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Formation exposed in the Glen-Gery Corporation quarry south of Beavertown . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . Photograph showing Tonoloway limestone exposure in Pfoutz Valley . . . . ....39 43 47 51 55 Page Photograph sho,,ving Tonoloway a nd Keyser Formations exposed in Cocolamus anticline.... . . . 19. Photograph showing north "''all of quarry pictured in Figure 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | (C) Tho Helderberg group of parts of West Virginia and Virginia, by F. M. Swartz __________________ ...CD) Petrogntphy of the Pioche district, Lincoln County, Nev., by J. L. Gillson _____________________ ...the south bank of the Cannonball River 3~ miles west of Solen, N. Dak.; B, Cross-bedding in the Fox Hills...Fox Hills sandstone in the railroad cut 3~ miles west of Marmarth, N. Dak _____________________,______...cteristic fossils of the Helderberg group of West Virginia and Virginia _______________ ',- ____ '____ .: _____ |  | | Report (volume) | | Conococheague and Stonehenge Limestones of Northwestern Virginia Randall C. Orndorff A1 CHAPTER B Conodont-Based...Conococheague and Stonehenge Limestones of Northwestern Virginia By RANDALL C. ORNDORFF Conodonts from two sections...Generalized geologic map of part of northwestern Virginia showing locations of sampled sections A2 Stratigraphic...Cambrian and Ordovician formations in northwestern Virginia A3 3. Conodont and trilobite zones and faunal...Northwestern Virginia By Randall C. Orndorff Abstract Conodonts from two sections in northwestern Virginia demonstrate |  | | Journal (issue) | | approximately 45 miles of Lake Erie shoreline in Erie County. Record high water levels are being recorded on...recen t mapping in the A ltoona region, Blai r County , a previously unreported occurrence of barite...a small quarry. A dirt road, just before the quarry, winds to the northeast behind the quarry and passes...Severa l hundred yards south of this cut, the Tonoloway and Keyser limestones are exposed in two rather...massively crystalline limeston e with white and pink calcite veins and "eyes" and is referred to as "calico |  | Doctor, Daniel H., Orndorff, Randall C., Parker, Ronald A., Weary, David J., Repetski, John E. (2010) Geologic map of the White Hall quadrangle, Frederick County, Virginia, and Berkeley County, West Virginia. Open-File Report 2010-1265. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20101265 | Report (issue) | | and B refer to sites shown in Figure 2 St Ojo VIRGINIA MAP LOCATION WELLTOWN SYNCLINE PUMPKIN RIDGE...Ridge province of northern Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. The quadrangle includes...Frederick County, Va., portion at a scale of 1:62,500. Lessing and others (1994) mapped the West Virginia...of this feature as it extends farther south in Virginia. STRATIGRAPHY All exposed bedrock outcrops are...(Skr), as on Little North Mountain. Lower ridges west of Little North Mountain are underlain by sandstones |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CALCIOSTRONTIANITE FROM WISE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Rrcneno S. MrrcnBrr., LlnittersityoJ Virginia AND 190 R. S. MITCHELL...resembling satin spar gypsum' ch an found loosein the quarry. The pieceis tabular, measuringabout veinl t he...sections also observed filling veins and vugs in the quarry' Thin dolomite show embeddedmicroscopiceuhedralcelestitecrystals'...intimately associated with celestite cor deeply or quarry, especially with celestite which is frosted which...gemmy celestite crystals up to fi inch, and gemmy calcite scalenohedrons.Most evidencesuggeststhat the calciostrontianiteis |  | | Report (volume) | | Creek shale (restricted)_______________________ Tonoloway limestone.____-__--__--___-____________ Devonian...character________________________________________ Quarry rock._____________________________________________...group. _____________________________ 34 A, Old quarry just southwest of active limestone mine in western...Lemont limestone forming footwall of quarry shown in A.. 34 A, Old quarry in northwest edge of Bellefonte;...limestone above; B, Thin-bedded Trenton limestone in quarry at Union Furnace, Huntingdon County_____-_---___-_-___35 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | III)I)I I( Hllk QUARRY INTRODUCTION Winfield, Pennsylvania The Faylor-Middlecreek quarry is located 0...Winfield on Route 304 in Union County, Pennsylvania. The village is just west of US Route 15 between Lewisburg...number of minerals have been found at this quarry, only a few—calcite, strontianite, celestine, pyrite, galena...specimens. Vugs in the top layers of the Tonoloway limestone contain calcite, strontianite, and celestine in crystals...crystals. These layers are exposed along the northern quarry walls to the right along the access road. In addition |  | | Report (volume) | | of the Giles County Area, a Part of the Appalachian Basin of Virginia and West Virginia Late Paleozoic...of the Giles County Area, a Part of the Appalachian Basin of Virginia and West Virginia By ROBERT C....fensters of the Pulaski thrust sheet, southwestern Virginia/ by Arthur P. Schultz [etc.] ch. E. Structural...of the Giles County area, a part of the Appalachian basin of Virginia and West Virginia / by Robert C...of the Giles County Area, a Part of the Appalachian Basin of Virginia and West Virginia By ROBERT C. |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Giles County Area, a Part of the Appalachian Basin of Virginia and West Virginia Late Paleozoic...of the Giles County Area, a Part of the Appalachian Basin of Virginia and West Virginia By ROBERT C....fensters of the Pulaski thrust sheet, southwestern Virginia/ by Arthur P. Schultz [etc.] ch. E. Structural...of the Giles County area, a part of the Appalachian basin of Virginia and West Virginia / by Robert C...of the Giles County Area, a Part of the Appalachian Basin of Virginia and West Virginia By ROBERT C. |  | | Report (volume) | | ROUND MOUNTAIN DISTRICTS BLAND AND GILES COUNTIES, VIRGINIA BY HARRY S. LADD AND FRANK W. STEAD Strategic...map and section of Flat Top Mountain district, Virginia..................... In Map and sections of Stange...Geologic map and sections of Round Mountain district, Virginia..................... In Geologic map of Round...Flat Top Mountain and Round Mountain districts, Virginia Manganese oxides and red clay along bedding planes......... Manganese oxides in residual clay of Tonoloway limestone in the Hall pit of the Round Mountain |  | | Report (issue) | | 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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