 | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE IN THE PIEDMONT OF VIRGINIA BY ANNA I. JONAS (Read before the Society December....................... 838 Piedmont of northern Virginia east of the Catoctin-Blue Ridge anti clinorium.................................. 844 Hornblende gneiss .................................. '............................................. 844 Lynchburg gneiss..................................................with the permission of the State Geologist of Virginia. (8 3 7 ) 838 A. I. JO N A S---- GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Waterford Quadrangle, Virginia and Maryland, and the Virginia Part of the Point of Rocks Quadrangle...Ridge province and Culpeper basin in northern Virginia and Maryland UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Geology of the Waterford quadrangle, Virginia and Maryland, and the Virginia part of the Point of Rocks quadrangle...references. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.3:2095 l. Geology-Virginia. 2. Geology-Maryland. I. Burton, William C. (William...................................... . Granitic Gneiss .............................................. |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA PART I I I : SILICATES By R. S. MITCHELL and R. J. BLAND,... JR. Department of Geology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. nets at the old iron mine near...constituent of an olivine diabase dike the Superior Stone quarry at Red Hill. which cuts across Everona limestone...Charlottesville and 1 mile south of monzonite from this quarry (Rector, U. S. Highway 250 (Rowan, 1955). The 1958)...(metabasalt) which makes up much of the in the Lovingston gneiss formation. They Blue Ridge on the western edge |  | | 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) | | ^ 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | of the Harpers Ferry Quadrangle, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia Prepared in cooperation with the...Survey, the National Park Service, and the 1oudoun County Department of Environmental Resources Cover:...Harpers Ferry. West Virginia, from the Loudoun Heights trail on Blue Ridge in Virginia. Photograph taken...of the Harpers Ferry Quadrangle, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia By Scott Southworth and David K...Survey, the National Park Service, and the Loudoun County Department of Environmental Resources Structure |  | | Report (volume) | | California-Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128, 345 Middlefield Rd. • RESTON, Virginia-USGS National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise...in stratigraphic nomenclature in Maryland and Virginia UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON:...Highly generalized map of part of the Maryland-Virginia Piedmont showing distribution of ultramafic rocks...plots of some ultramafic rocks from the Maryland-Virginia Piedmont .......................................and CIPW norms of some ultramafic rocks from the Virginia and Maryland Piedmont ............. AIO Aii |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | Drew, Lawrence J., Southworth, Scott, Sutphin, David M., Rubis, Glen A., Schuenemeyer, John H., Burton, William C. (2004) Validation of the relation between structural patterns in fractured bedrock and structural information interpreted from 2D-Variogram maps of water-well yields in Loudoun county, Virginia. Natural Resources Research, 13 (4) 255-264 doi:10.1007/s11053-004-0133-6 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2D-Variogram Maps of Water-Well Yields in Loudoun County, Virginia Lawrence J. Drew,1,5 Scott Southworth...yield data from Loudoun County, Virginia, in the central Appalachian Mountains; Loudoun County is more that...Survey, Reston, Virginia. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. 3 Loudoun County Department of Building...Building & Development, Leesburg, Virginia. 4 Southwest Statistical Consulting, LLC, Cortez, Colorado...be addressed at U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia; e-mail: ldrew@usgs.gov. 2 GENERAL GEOLOGIC SETTING |  | | Report (issue) | | Falls of the Potomac River, looking north on the Virginia side. The Potomac falls 80 feet across resistant...field trips 5 and 6. Photograph by Gary Fleming, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Geology...Sections Geological Society of America Tysons Corner, Virginia March 24-27, 2004 Edited by Scott Southworth and...Groat, Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2004 Free on application to U.S. Geological...Trip 1 outlines the tectonic history of northern Virginia along an east-to-west transect from the Coastal |  | Aleinikoff, John N, Burton, William C, Lyttle, Peter T, Nelson, Arthur E, Southworth, C.Scott (2000) U–Pb geochronology of zircon and monazite from Mesoproterozoic granitic gneisses of the northern Blue Ridge, Virginia and Maryland, USA. Precambrian Research, 99 (1) 113-146 doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(99)00056-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gneisses of the northern Blue Ridge, Virginia and Maryland, USA John N. Aleinikoff a, *, William C. Burton...963, Denver, CO 80225, USA b US Geological Survey, MS 926A, Reston, VA 22092, USA c US Geological Survey...Survey, MS 908, Reston, VA 22092, USA Received 29 March 1999; accepted 23 July 1999 Abstract Mesoproterozoic...of the northern Blue Ridge geologic province in Virginia and Maryland. Lithology, structure, and U–Pb geochronology...granitic gneiss (1153±6 Ma), hornblende monzonite gneiss (1149±19 Ma), porphyroblastic granite gneiss (1144±2 |  | | Journal (issue) | | that the average natural radiation background for Virginia is 125 mrem. Natural background sources account...aspects of radon and radioactivity published in Virginia Minerals are by Lasch (1988), Johnson (1979),... and Johnson, Gathright,and Henika (1979). VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Vol. 37 Table 1... 1.5 5.6 - 1.0 1.4 - .46 - 7.3 - (I VIRGINIA MINERALS. URANIUM-THE ELEMENT Uranium was first...the other two are nitrogen and phosphorus. 12 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES URANIUM, THORIUM |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...1988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...and State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA 1 988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION |  | | Report (issue) | | and C.M. Sears U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 Open-File Report 92-448 This report is...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located in the Culpeper basin, Maryland and Virginia ..................... 168 H. Section H: Occurrences...Occurrences located in other areas of Virginia. ... 185 I. Section I: Occurrences located in North Carolina...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2 |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Virginia ........... 96 Table 18 Selected references arranged...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of southwestern Virginia.........................98 Figure 23. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central Virginia........................99 INTRODUCTION Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Report (issue) | | Upperville 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Fauquier and Loudoun Counties, Virginia By Arthur E. Nelson1 Open-File Report...extends northeasterly from North Carolina through Virginia, Maryland, and into southern Pennsylvania (Espenshade...with Middle Proterozoic porphyroblastic granite gneiss (Yaw) comprise most of the anticlinorium's core... Middle Proterozoic Rocks Felsic gneiss (Yfg) The felsic gneiss, which is commonly mixed with lesser...thinly and faintly layered biotite-quartz-feldspar gneiss, commonly with plagioclase and potassium feldspar |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurring commonly in metamorphic rocks such as gneiss, various schists and contact limestone. It occurs...collected recently at th Belmont quarry, Goose Creek, Loudoun County, Virginia. Massive epidote associated...Hill, Calaveras County, California. Rockhounds of North Carolina and southern Virginia have been making |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | Lyttle, Peter T., Aleinikoff, John N., Burton, William C., Crider, E. Allen, Drake, Avery A., Froelich, Albert J., Horton, J. Wright, Kasselas, Gregorios, Mixon, Robert B., McCartan, Lucy, Nelson, Arthur E., Newell, Wayne L., Pavlides, Louis, Powars, David S., Southworth, C. Scott, Weems, Robert E. (2017) Geologic map of the Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Open-File Report 2017-1142. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20171142 | Report (issue) | | Allen Crider Jr. (2012–2017) 8 10 KILOMETERS 9 VIRGINIA MAP LOCATION Tc Calvert and (or) Choptank Formations...the Culpeper basin and the Barboursville basin, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80–468...geology of the northern part of the Culpeper basin, Virginia and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File...Geologic map of the Arcola quadrangle, Loudoun and Fairfax Counties, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous...structure, southwestern Maryland and northeastern Virginia; Field trip volume and guidebook, October 17th |  | | Report (volume) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1955 GEOLOGY OF CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA BY JOHN C. WHITAKER ABSTRACT Detailed mapping...of Catoctin Mountain in Maryland and northern Virginia indicates that the area is not a syncline as previously...revision of the stratigraphy. Strata mapped as Loudoun along the eastern border of Catoctin Mountain constitute...Cambrian-Precambrian boundary. .. 439 Introduction 456 Loudoun formation 441 Map pattern 457 General 441 Structure...Catoctin Mountain, Maryland and Virginia 435 2. Photomicrographs of Loudoun phyllite, Harpers phyllite, Tomstown |
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