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- Kink banding in Laurel Formation of Rock Creek Shear Zone, Broad Branch, Washington, DC by Callan Bentley
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An exposure of highly foliated metasedimentary rock (metagraywacke) of the Laurel Formation in Broad Branch, part of Rock Creek Park, in northwest Washington, DC.
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- Kink banding in Laurel Formation of Rock Creek Shear Zone, Broad Branch, Washington, DC by Callan Bentley
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An exposure of highly foliated metasedimentary rock (metagraywacke) of the Laurel Formation in Broad Branch, part of Rock Creek Park, in northwest Washington, DC.
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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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...
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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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...
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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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...
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- Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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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...
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An exposure of the Mather Gorge Formation, downstream of the "emergency exit" trail off Billy Goat Trail loop A, and upstream of the first sandy beach. Immediately upstream of this outcrop is a prominent belt of amphibolite, and there are large angular amphibolite boudin blocks embedded in this strange rock. ...
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Exposed on the northern bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the downstream end of "Widewater" (upstream of the Old Anglers Inn access point), these rocks are the result of ancient mountain-building processes. These rocks, the Mather Gorge Formation, were originally deposited as layers of sand and mud i...
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Large panorama of a roadcut near Gouverneur, NY known as "The Trainwreck". There are remarkable boudinage features in this high-grade marble that mark the train cars scattered off the track.
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Just down the road from "The Trainwreck", this is another roadcut through marble in the Adirondack Lowlands east of Gourvernour, NY. The "Steer's Head" is located left of center and there are more boudinage features in the marble further to the right. Can you spot Edi and Berti?
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