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White Oak Mountain WMA is owned and maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The area is open to the public for hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, and primitive camping. A shooting range is available for sighting-in firearms. [2]
The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
Top of Stonyman Summit, Shenandoah National Park The geology of Virginia began to form at least 1.8 billion years ago. The oldest rocks in the state were metamorphosed during the Grenville orogeny, a mountain-building event beginning 1.2 billion years ago in the Proterozoic, which obscured older rocks.
Together these peaks form an impressive group on the Washington side of the Gorge. Between 1425 and 1450 AD the south side of Table Mountain sheared off and dammed the Columbia River in an event known as the Bonneville Slide. [4] The river soon carved a new bend around to the south, but for a while Native Americans living in the area could walk ...
Smith Mountain Lake is a large reservoir in the Roanoke Region of Virginia, [3] United States, located southeast of the City of Roanoke and southwest of Lynchburg. The lake was created in 1963 by the Smith Mountain Dam impounding the Roanoke River .
Mountain Run is a small tributary of the Rappahannock River, located in Virginia. It starts and ends within the borders of Culpeper County, emptying into the Rappahannock River, which makes up the northeastern board of the county. Two reservoirs, Mountain Run Lake [1] and Pelham Reservoir, [2] are fed by Mountain Run.
The lava flows that form the sinuous flat-topped mesas of Table Mountain in Tuolumne County belong to a geologic formation known as the Table Mountain Latite. Within the region of Table Mountain, the Table Mountain Latite is mapped as a part of the Mehrten Formation. Further north, it is considered part of a sequence of volcanic strata known as ...
In May 2003, the North Carolina General Assembly authorized a state park along the Mayo River, from the Virginia-North Carolina state line, to the river's confluence with the Dan River. [2] [4] The Mayo Mountain Access was opened to the public on April 1, 2010, as an interim facility. [5] [4] For the first decade of its existence, the park ...