By: magic-gigapans
Image: Alan Pitts, 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 Norfolk Southern Railroad approximately 1.25 miles east of Linden, Virginia there are several exposed railroad cuts. The exposed outcrops are Layered Pyroxene Granulite, Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozic in age and are thought to be country rock, altered during the Grenville orogeny. The outcrop here, which faces almost due north, is severly weatherd, but there are several locations in which metamorphic foliation and gneissic banding are visible. These rocks are part of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex and some of the oldest pieces of Virginia. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection)