Ancient Lavas in Shenandoah National Park Near Luray, Virginia
Description:
Abstract: In the Blue Ridge Province of northern Virginia, Maryland, and southern Pennsylvania, Lower Cambrian beds are underlain by a thick sequence of greenstone and interbedded sedimentary rocks known as the Catoctin Formation. An area near Luray, Va., was studied to determine the thickness of the formation, its relationship to overlying and underlying rocks, and the original nature of the lavas from which the Catoctin greenstone was derived. There the Catoctin Formation lies unconformably …
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Date:
1969
Creator:
Reed, John Calvin, Jr.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department