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Looking Glass Dome. The geology of North Carolina includes ancient Proterozoic rocks belonging to the Grenville Province in the Blue Ridge.The region experienced igneous activity and the addition of new terranes and orogeny mountain building events throughout the Paleozoic, followed by the rifting of the Atlantic Ocean and the deposition of thick sediments in the Coastal Plain and offshore waters.
The Albemarle Group is a geologic group in North Carolina composed of metamorphosed mafic and felsic volcanic rock, sandstone, siltstone, shale, and mudstone. [1] It is considered part of the Carolina Slate Belt and covers several counties in central North Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ediacaran period in the Floyd Church ...
Carters Grove Bluffs, north side of James River [4 Moore House Bluff, southwest side of York River , York County 37°13′25″N 76°29′14″W / 37.22361°N 76.48722°W / 37.22361; -76.48722 (very close to type section
Brevard Fault Zone in its extent from Montgomery, Alabama to the North-Carolina-Virginia border. The Brevard Fault Zone is a 700-km [1] long and several km-wide thrust fault that extends from the North Carolina-Virginia border, runs through the north metro Atlanta area, and ends near Montgomery, Alabama.
Triassic geology of North Carolina (8 P) Pages in category "Geologic formations of North Carolina" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Stone Mountain is the centerpiece of Stone Mountain State Park in North Carolina. It is a dome of exposed granite (specifically a quartz diorite to granodiorite) of Devonian age, which has intruded into the gneiss of the Precambrian Alligator Back Formation. [1] It rises sharply over 600 feet (183 m) above the surrounding terrain.
Weldon, North Carolina, and Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River [9] ... Geologic map of Georgia (U.S. state) Spring line settlement; References
The Sanford Formation is a Late Triassic -age geologic formation in North Carolina. It is mainly found in the Sanford sub-basin of the Deep River Basin, the southernmost of the large Mesozoic basins forming the Newark Supergroup. It is the highest unit of the Chatham Group, overlying the dark lake and swamp sediments of the Cumnock Formation.