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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 ...
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.
W.W. Ashe, a student at the University of North Carolina is appointed part-time Assistant in Forestry for the state Geologic Survey. Conducting timber investigations, he becomes the first state employee to carry out forestry work. 1905 - The NC Geological Survey is reorganized and renamed the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey.
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 Pekin Formation is a Late Triassic geological formation in North Carolina.The Pekin Formation is specific to the Sanford Sub-Basin of the Deep River Basin of North Carolina, although it may be equivalent to the Stockton Formation of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
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
Lake Phelps is North Carolina's second largest natural lake. It has a surface area of 16,600 acres (67 km 2), [2] and is located primarily in Washington County on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula between the Albemarle Sound and the Pamlico Sound. The easternmost part of the lake extends into Tyrrell County.
Typical of rivers in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, the Neuse enters a basin of chocolate intermittent bottomland swamp on its journey towards its outlet. One interesting exception is the " Cliffs of the Neuse " area near Goldsboro , where the river cuts a narrow 30 m (90 ft) gorge through limestone and sandstone bluffs.