By: magic-gigapans
Image: Callan Bentley, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 14 May 2020
Last Updated: 19 May 2020

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Along the Rockfish River, south of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge province, there is a gorgeous quarry exposure of the Rockfish Conglomerate, a Neoproterozoic matrix-supported conglomerate with a mix of rounded and angular clasts, perhaps indicative of ancient (Snowball Earth) glacial outwash.