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Group: Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection (M.A.G.I.C.)

Metamorphic Rocks

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Metamorphic rocks at outcrop and hand sample scales.

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  1. Outcrop of the late-Ordovician-aged Martinsburg Formation (turbidites/flysch) shed off the Taconian Orogen to the east into the adjacent deep marine basin. The strata were later tilted and cleaved during Alleghanian mountain-building.

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  2. A lovely outcrop on a lovely spring day.

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  3. Cambrian-aged Harpers Formation meta-mudstone exposed on the property of Arlington, Virginia's outdoor education facility, the Phoebe Hall Knipling Outdoor Lab.

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  4. A nice exposure of sheared scours and cross-beds within Weverton Formation quartzite.

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  5. The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...

  6. The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...

  7. The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...

  8. The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...

  9. Where Interstate 64 crosses the Blue Ridge, some fine exposures of Catoctin Formation greenstone may be found. For another perspective on the same location, check out this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/126934

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  10. Where Interstate 64 crosses the Blue Ridge, there are terrific outcrops of Catoctin Formation greenstone. For another perspective on the same location, check out this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/126939

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