Intrusive rocks in the Blue Ridge plateau, Virginia

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
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An injection complex of early pre‐Cambrian age is exposed in the Elk Creek anticline in Grayson County, Virginia. There, sedimentary rocks and diorite have been intruded by the Striped Rock and the Carsonville granites. The granites have metamorphosed, injected, reacted with, and replaced the older rocks to form many mixed types. This injection complex is part of a large area of similar rocks that form the core of the Catoctin Mountain‐Blue Ridge uplift in Virginia, and is much older than the overlying volcanic series of later pre‐Cambrian age. ©1942. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Intrusive rocks in the Blue Ridge plateau, Virginia
Series title Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
DOI 10.1029/TR023i002p00342
Volume 23
Issue 2
Year Published 1942
Language English
Publisher American Geophysical Union
Description 1 p.
First page 342
Last page 342
Country United States
State Virginia
County Grayson County
Other Geospatial Elk Creek
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