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  • Usage in publication:
    • Leatherwood granite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Jonas, A.I., 1928, Geological map of Virginia; preliminary edition: Virginia Geological Survey


Summary:

Named for Leatherwood, Henry Co., central southern VA. Consists of biotite muscovite granite with porphyritic facies. Intrusive into Glenarm series. Age is Precambrian.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Leatherwood Granite*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Rankin, D.W., 1994, Continental margin of the eastern United States; past and present, IN Speed, R.C., ed., Phanerozoic evolution of North American continent-ocean transitions: Geological Society of America, The Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), Continent-Ocean Transect Series, p. 129-218.


Summary:

Leatherwood Granite has U-Pb zircon age of 516 Ma (Sinha and others, 1989) which makes it Late Cambrian.

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


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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