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Photographs from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia (Big Island region)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2009
End Date
2013

Citation

Carter, M.W., Crider, E.A., Southworth, C.S., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 2016, Detailed geologic mapping geodatabase for the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia with station point photographs: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7DN434F.

Summary

This dataset contains photographs keyed to station points along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. Photographs are titled and arranged by 7.5-minute quadrangle, and station points are located in the "Detailed geologic mapping geodatabase for the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia." The first part of the photograph's filename corresponds to the FieldID attribute of the PhotoPoints entity in the Blue Ridge Parkway Geodatabase. The photographs in this collection are for the Big Island quadrangle, but are also part of a larger data release (Carter et al., 2016). For Big Island, there are 37 jpg in the collection. Carter, M.W., Crider, E.A., Southworth, C.S., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 2016, Detailed geologic mapping geodatabase for the Blue [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Mark W. Carter
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
Metadata Contact :
Mark W. Carter
Originator :
Mark W. Carter
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey

Attached Files

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BI-343 F1 fold.JPG thumbnail 2.16 MB image/jpeg
BI-395 F1 fold.JPG thumbnail 2.15 MB image/jpeg
BI-397 crenulations.JPG thumbnail 2.11 MB image/jpeg
BI-402 F2 folds.JPG thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg
BI-424 purple graywacke and conglomerate.JPG thumbnail 2.16 MB image/jpeg
BI-457 pin-striped gneiss.JPG thumbnail 2.07 MB image/jpeg
BI-458 pin-striped gneiss.JPG thumbnail 2.13 MB image/jpeg
BI-473 view of Thunder Ridge.JPG thumbnail 2.01 MB image/jpeg
BI-492 violet qtz in mylonite.JPG thumbnail 3.99 MB image/jpeg
BI-556 megacrystic protomylonite.JPG thumbnail 3.78 MB image/jpeg
BI-559 megacrystic protomylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.03 MB image/jpeg
BI-7 bedding.JPG thumbnail 2.11 MB image/jpeg
BI-10 mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BI-11 mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg
BI-14 lineation.JPG thumbnail 2.17 MB image/jpeg
BI-16 coarse-grained mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.08 MB image/jpeg
BI-17 blue quartz mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BI-31 coarse-grained mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.2 MB image/jpeg
BI-33 coarse-grained mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.17 MB image/jpeg
BI-44 banded siltstone.JPG thumbnail 2.15 MB image/jpeg
BI-49 F1 fold.JPG thumbnail 2.13 MB image/jpeg
BI-62 F1 fold.JPG thumbnail 2.11 MB image/jpeg
BI-90 basement-sed contact.JPG thumbnail 6.51 MB image/jpeg
BI-98 mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.08 MB image/jpeg
BI-101 coarse-grained mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BI-118 crenulated banded slate.JPG thumbnail 2.1 MB image/jpeg
BI-119 pencils.JPG thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg
BI-138 gritty graywacke.JPG thumbnail 2.08 MB image/jpeg
BI-156 bedding in sandstone.JPG thumbnail 2.06 MB image/jpeg
BI-164 transposed bedding.JPG thumbnail 2.16 MB image/jpeg
BI-172 F2 fold.JPG thumbnail 2.15 MB image/jpeg
BI-191 bedding-cleavage.JPG thumbnail 2.07 MB image/jpeg
BI-275 mylonite foliation.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BI-276 rodding in mylonite.JPG thumbnail 2.06 MB image/jpeg
BI-401 intersection lineation.JPG thumbnail 2.05 MB image/jpeg
BI-446 basement-sediment contact.JPG thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg

Purpose

The purpose of this dataset is to provide photographs taken by the author during the course of geologic mapping along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.

Rights

Copyright: ​Government material is not copyrighted. Proper credit format: U.S. Geological Survey
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  • USGS Data Release Products

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File Processing
All photos taken from Oct. 2009 to July 2013 as part of the Appalachian Blue Ridge Project, Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia Task. Photos were taken with an Olympic digital camera, model uT6000,ST6000 and an Apple IPad, Model MC744LL/A. Added to ScienceBase on Fri Dec 18 15:55:15 MST 2015 by processing file MultiChildUpload_BRPPhotos.xls.
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