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  • Usage in publication:
    • Stage Road Layered Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Sinha, A.K., and Bartholomew, M.J., 1984, Evolution of the Grenville terrane in the central Virginia Appalachians, IN Bartholomew, M.J., ed., The Grenville event in the Appalachians and related topics: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 194, p. 175-186.


Summary:

The Stage Road Layered Gneiss, here named in the Lovingston massif, includes augen gneisses and schists of the old Lovingston Formation of Jonas (1935). It consists of augen gneiss, biotite gneiss, and layered schists and gneisses. Age is Middle Proterozoic, based on concordia intercept ages of 1870 to 915 Ma.

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


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