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Culpeper Basin

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Hunt, ReBecca K., Vincent L. Santucci and Jason Kenworthy. 2006. "A preliminary inventory of fossil fish from National Park Service units." in S.G. Lucas, J.A. Spielmann, P.M. Hester, J.P. Kenworthy, and V.L. Santucci (ed.s), Fossils from Federal Lands. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and
157: 212: 196: 138: 103: 172: 99: 110: 48: 184: 252:, Leavy, B.D., Froelich, A.J., and Abram, E.C. Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1313-C. 1983. Map Scale: 1:125,000. 24: 117:
is exposed there. The formation has produced disarticulated fish remains including isolated bones and scales.
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Geology of Howard and Montgomery Counties, Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Maryland, 1964.)
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Bedrock map and geotechnical properties of rocks of the Culpeper basin, Virginia and Maryland
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Unnamed stream exposing diabase of Boyds Sill, Hoyles Mill Trail, Montgomery County, Maryland
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Geologic history and stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Culpeper Basin, Virginia
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Balls Bluff Siltstone with diabase intrusion, northern face of Luck Stone Quarry,
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Fisher, G. W., 1964, The Triassic rocks of Montgomery County.
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within the basin were intruded by igneous rocks (primarily
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Index


USGS
link to publication
Newark Supergroup
Triassic
rift basins
Appalachian Mountains
Madison County
Orange County
Virginia
Frederick
Maryland
siltstone
sandstone
conglomerate
diabase
metamorphism
Gettysburg Basin
Barboursville Basin
Groveton Member
Bull Run Formation
Montgomery County
Sill
Boyds
Jurassic diabase boulders in the Culpeper Basin northeast of Dulles Airport
diabase
Dulles Airport
Balls Bluff Siltstone with diabase intrusion, northern face of Luck Stone Quarry, Manassas
Manassas
Limestone conglomerate of Leesburg Member

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