Mount Rogers References

References:

Aleinikoff, J.N., Zartman, R.E., Rankin, D.W., Lyttle, P.T., Burton, W.C. and McDowell, R.C., 1991, New U-Pb zircon ages for rhyolite of the Catoctin and Mount Rogers formations: more evidence for two pulses of Iapetus rifting in the central and southern Appalachians: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 1, p. 2.

Badger, R.L., and Sinha, A.K., 1988, Age and Sr isotopic signature of the Catoctin volcanic province: Implications for subcrustal mantle evolution: Geology, v. 16, p. 692-695.

Bartholomew, M.J. and Lewis, S.E., 1984, Evolution of Grenville massifs in the Blue Ridge geologic province, southern and central Appalachians: in Bartholomew, M.J., (editor), The Grenville Event in the Appalachians and Related Topics: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 194, p. 229-254.

Miller, J.M.G., 1994, The Neoproterozoic Konnarock Formation, southwestern Virginia, USA: Glaciolacustrine facies in a continental rift: in Deynoux, M., Miller, J.M.G., Domack, E.W., Eyles, N., (editors), Earth's Geologic Record; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 47-59.

Rankin, D.W., 1967, Guide to the Geology of the Mt. Rogers area, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee: Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook.

Rankin, D.W., 1970, The Blue Ridge and the Reading Prong: stratigraphy and structure of Precambrian rocks in northwestern North Carolina: in Fisher, G.W., Pettijohn, F.J., Reed, J.C. and Weaver, K.N., (editors), Studies of Appalachian Geology, Central and Southern: New York, Wiley-Interscience, p. 227-245.

Rankin, D.W., 1971, Geology of the Blue Ridge in southwestern Virginia and adjacent North Carolina: in Lowry, W.D. (editor), Guidebook to Appalachian tectonics and sulfide mineralization of southwestern Virginia: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geological Sciences, Guidebook no. 5, p. 39-86.

Rankin, D.W., 1976, Appalachian salients and recesses: Late Precambrian continental breakup and the opening of the Iapetus Ocean: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 81, p. 5605-5619.

Rankin, D.W., 1993, The volcanogenic Mount Rogers formation and the overlying glaciogenic Konnarock Formation - Two Late Proterozoic units in southwestern Virginia: U.S. Geological Society Bulletin 2029, 26 p.

Rankin, D.W., Espenshade, G.H. and Neuman, R.B., 1972, Geologic map of the west half of the Winston-Salem Quadrangle, North Carolina-Virginia-Tennessee: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Investigations Series, Map I-709A.

Rankin, D.W., Espenshade, G.H., and Shaw, K.W., 1973, Stratigraphy and structure of the metamorphic belt in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia: A study from the Blue Ridge across the Brevard Fault Zones to the Sauratown Mountains Anticlinorium: American Journal of Science, v.273-A, p. 1-40.

Rankin, D.W., Miller, J.M.G., Simpson, E.L., 1994, Geology of the Mt. Rogers area, southwestern Virginia Blue Ridge and Unaka Belt: in Schultz, A., and Henika, B. (editors), Fieldguides to southern Appalachian structure, stratigraphy, and engineering geology: Virginia Tech Guidebook No. 10, p. 127-176.

Simpson, E.L. and Eriksson, K.A., 1989, Sedimentology of the Unicoi Formation in southern and central Virginia: Evidence for late Proterozoic to early Cambrian rift-to-passive margin transition; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 42-54.

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1993, Geologic Map of Virginia; Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources, Charlottesville, VA.

Wehr, F. and Glover, L. III, 1985, Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Virginia-North Carolina Blue Ridge: Evolution of a late Proterozoic-early Paleozoic hinge zone: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 285-295.