Rockhounding Virginia
by Robert Beard
Rockhounding Virginia
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| Acknowledgments |
viii
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| Introduction |
1
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| Rockhounding Basics |
4
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| Geology |
12
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| Natural Resources |
26
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| How To Use This Guide |
31
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| Map Legend |
34
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| Coastal Plain | |
| 1. Indian Field Creek Fossils |
36
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| 2. Chippokes Plantation State Park Fossils |
40
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| 3. Lake Matoaka Spillway Fossils |
43
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| 4. York River State Park Fossils |
46
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| 5. Westmoreland State Park Shark Teeth |
49
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| 6. Caledon State Park Shark Teeth |
53
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| 7. Leesylvania State Park Sandstone |
56
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| 8. Government Island Sandstone Quarry |
59
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| 9. Alum Spring Park Wood Fossils |
63
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| Piedmont | |
| 10. Windy Run Quartz and Schorl |
68
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| 11. Turkey Run Steatite and Sillimanite |
72
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| 12. Great Falls of the Potomac Gneiss |
76
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| 13. Leesburg Potomac Marble |
80
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| 14. Evergreen Mills Banded Metasediments |
83
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| 15. Hadensville Metapyroxenite |
87
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| 16. Schuyler Soapstone Quarry |
91
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| 17. Scufflin Acres Farms Amethyst |
94
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| 18. Pittsylvania Wayside Park Feldspar and Mica |
97
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| 19. Leesville Actinolite Schist |
101
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| 20. Fairy Stone State Park Sericite - Staurolite Crosses |
104
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| Blue Ridge | |
| 21. Happy Creek Epidotized Granite and Metabasalt |
108
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| 22. Front Royal Chrysotile in Metabasalt |
112
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| 23. Compton Peak Columnar Metabasalt |
115
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| 24. Rose River Granite and Unakite |
118
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| 25. Stanley Unakite |
122
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| 26. Kennedy Mine Limonite and Manganese Oxides |
125
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| 27. Mount Torry Mine Limonite and Hematite |
129
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| 28. Pkin Limonite |
132
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| 29. Little Marys Creek Unakite |
136
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| 30. Vesuvius Unakite Quarry |
139
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| 31. Tye River Blue Quartz |
142
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| 32. Roseland Blue Quartz |
146
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| Valley and Ridge | |
| 33. Gainesboro Fossils |
150
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| 34. Gore Fossils |
154
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| 35. Elizabeth Furnace Slag, Limonite, and Hematite |
157
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| 36. Fort Valley Road Fossils |
161
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| 37. Mine Gap Furnace Slag and Limonite |
164
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| 38. Columbia Furnace Fossils |
167
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| 39. Brocks Gap Limonite-Stained Rocks |
171
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| 40. Fulks Run Fossils and Calcite |
175
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| 41. Maury River Pink and White Sandstone |
178
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| 42. Lexington Fossils and Calcite |
183
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| 43. Effinger Fossils |
187
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| 44. Callie Furnace Slag and Limonite |
190
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| 45. Roaring Run Furnace Glassy Slag |
196
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| 46. Rich Patch Banded Sediments |
200
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| 47. Covington Ochre and Limonite |
203
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| 48. Peters Mountain Limonite |
206
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| References |
210
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| Site Index |
213
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| Index |
214
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| About the Author |
216
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