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  • Usage in publication:
    • Stafford Store quartz monzonite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartz monzonite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Lonsdale, J.T., 1927, Geology of the gold-pyrite belt of the northeastern Piedmont, Virginia: Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 30, 110 p.


Summary:

Stafford Store quartz monzonite named for Stafford Store, Fauquier Co., northeastern VA. Typically developed near Stafford Store. Age is post-Ordovician.

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


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