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  • Usage in publication:
    • Lovingston massif*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Herz, Norman, and Force, E.R., 1987, Geology and mineral deposits of the Roseland district of central Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1371, 56 p.


Summary:

Lovingston is here used informally as a "massif", following the usage of Bartholomew and others (1981).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lovingston Granite Gneiss*
  • Modifications:
    • Geochronologic dating
  • 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:

Used as Lovingston Granite Gneiss, a porphyritic granite or augen gneiss. Davis (1974) reports 207Pb/206Pb dates of 1032 and 1052 Ma from quartz monzonite and 1061 and 933 Ma from monzogranitic pegmatite, and U-Pb zircon upper intercept ages of 1080 Ma from same rocks.

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


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