The Middle Ordovician Fincastle conglomerate north of Roanoke, Virginia and its implications for Blue Ridge tectonism

Clasts within the Fincastle conglomerate indicate that more than 15,000 ft of structural relief had developed between the axis of the Blue Ridge anticlinorium and the trough of the Salem synclinorium by Middle Ordovician time. The Fincastle conglomerate is restricted to the northeast depression of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karpa, John B.
Other Authors: Geology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53815