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Sulfuric acid altered rock. Groundwater leaching through cracks is precipitating melanerite (white iron sulfate) on the outcrop face.
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...
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Where Interstate 64 crosses the Blue Ridge, some fine exposures of Catoctin Formation greenstone may be found. For another perspective on the same location, check out this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/126934
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Where Interstate 64 crosses the Blue Ridge, there are terrific outcrops of Catoctin Formation greenstone. For another perspective on the same location, check out this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/126939
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Native copper in Catoctin Formation metabasalt from the Virgin Mine in Pine Mountain, PA.
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This amazing piece of float was located under the Route 15 Bridge in Point of Rocks, MD. My current thinking is that the lower left corner is Catoctin formation but I am scratching my head over the upper right portion. Perhaps it is also Catoctin Metabasalt just with a different, more rigid consistancy. However, the p...
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This is an exposure of the Catoctin formation at Point of Rocks in Maryland, on the north bank of the Potomac River. Point of Rocks is a prominent water gap cut by the Potomac River. The Catoctin formation is Neoproterozoic in age and was erupted as a series of flood basalts during the breakup of the Mesoproterozoic su...
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