A lithologic log of the Oak Grove core, northeastern Virginia

Open-File Report 78-855
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Abstract

The Oak Grove core was taken as part of a multifaceted project to develop a stratigraphic and tectonic framework for the Rappahannock drainage basin, northeastern Virginia. This core is at present the only continuously cored Cretaceous and Tertiary section on the Northern Neck of Virginia and is one of the few deep cores in the entire Salisbury embayment. The core includes most of the Chesapeake Group sediments (Miocene part) in the Oak Grove area, the Pamunkey Group (Paleocene and Eocene) and nearly all of the Potomac Group (Lower Cretaceous part) (see Table 1).


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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title A lithologic log of the Oak Grove core, northeastern Virginia
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 78-855
DOI 10.3133/ofr78855
Year Published 1978
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 39 p.
Country United States
State Virginia
City Oak Grove
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