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- Point Lookout granite
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Granite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
Named Point Lookout granite for its occurrence on Point Lookout Mountain, Grayson Co., southwestern VA. [Unit not described. Age is Precambrian(?).]
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Point Lookout granite
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Summary:
Point Lookout granite described as biotite quartz monzonite. Intrudes biotite gneiss injection complex, oldest rock of which is Saddle gneiss (new). Cut by pink pegmatite.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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