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Record Nr.

UNINA9910841038303321

Autore

Tollo Richard

Titolo

Jurassic Igneous Rocks of the Culpeper Basin, Virginia: Warrenton to Rapidan, Virginia, July 12 1989

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 2013

ISBN

1-118-67015-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (19 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Field trip guidebook (International Geological Congress (28th : 1989 : Washington, D.C.)), T201

Disciplina

551.7

Soggetti

Geology, Stratigraphic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 201.  The Culpeper basin is one of a series of fault-bounded troughs of early Mesozoic age exposed discontinuously in eastern North America from South Carolina to Nova Scotia (Figure 1). These troughs formed during the continental rifting episode that led eventually to development of the Atlantic Ocean and eastern North American Atlantic Coastal Plain. The exposed Mesozoic basins are oriented subparallel to the dominant structural grain of the enclosing Precambrian and early Paleozoic metamorphic rocks of the Appalachian Piedmont and adjacent Blue Ridge provinces and some of the basins have structural characteristics which may be related to this pre-existing fabric [Lindholm, 1978; Ratcliffe and Burton, 1985]. Lithologic units within the basins are assigned to the Newark Supergroup of Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age [Froelich and Olsen, 1985] and include a thick succession of terrestrial clastic and lacustrine deposits intercalated with basalt flows.