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  • Usage in publication:
    • Oventop Suite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Diorite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Bartholomew, M.J., and Lewis, S.E., 1984, Evolution of Grenville massifs in the Blue Ridge geologic province, southern and central Appalachians, IN Bartholomew, M.J., ed., The Grenville event in the Appalachians and related topics: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 194, p. 229-254.


Summary:

The Oventop Suite is here named in the Lovingston massif in the Blue Ridge of Virginia. It consists of biotite dioritoid plutonic rocks. Age is Middle Proterozoic.

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


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