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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hills Mountain Granulite Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Bartholomew, M.J., Gathright, T.M., III, and Henika, W.S., 1981, A tectonic model for the Blue Ridge in central Virginia: American Journal of Science, v. 281, no. 9, p. 1164-1183.


Summary:

The Hills Mountain Granulite Gneiss is here named in the Lovingston massif in the central Blue Ridge, VA. It consists of gray, medium-grained, hypersthene-bearing quartzo-feldspathic gneiss with granoblastic texture and poorly developed segregation layering. It forms most of the country rock around and roof-pendants in the Archer Mountain pluton. The contact zone between the gneiss and the pluton consists of a zone of migmatitic granulite gneiss. Age is Middle Proterozoic.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hills Mountain Granulite Gneiss*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Rankin, D.W. (editor), Chiarenzelli, J.R., Drake, A.A., Jr., Goldsmith, Richard, Hall, L.M., Hinze, W.J., Isachsen, Y.W., Lidiak, E.G., McLelland, James, Mosher, Sharon, Ratcliffe, N.M., Secor, D.T., Jr., and Whitney, P.R., 1993, Proterozoic rocks east and southeast of the Grenville Front, IN Reed, J.C., Jr., and others, eds., Precambrian; conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, The Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), v. C-2, p. 335-461.


Summary:

Hills Mountain Granulite Gneiss was mapped by Bloomer and Werner (1955) as Lovingston Granite as opposed to surrounding Lovingston Gneiss, and by Bartholomew (1977) as poorly layered granulite gneiss.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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