Named for village of Sabot, Goochland Co., central VA. Consists of massive, homogenous amphibolite intercalated with biotite gneiss. Flanks north-northeast-trending antiform occupied by State Farm Gneiss. Structurally overlies State Farm Gneiss; structurally underlies Maidens Gneiss. Age is late Precambrian and (or) Early Cambrian.
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Grenvillian [Middle Proterozoic] rocks cropping out in eastern Piedmont of VA in region called Goochland terrane by Horton and others (1989) or Goochland granulite terrane by Farrar (1984). Lithic sequence (ascending) consists of State Farm Gneiss (felsic to intermediate gneisses of both igneous and sedimentary protoliths), Sabot Amphibolite (mafic volcanic protolith), and Maidens Gneiss (heterogeneous unit that is probably metavolcanic and metasedimentary in origin).
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