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Database for the Geologic Map of the South Boston 30' × 60' Quadrangle, Virginia and North Carolina

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Horton, J.W., Jr., Peper, J.D., Burton, W.C., Weems, R.E., Sacks, P.E., and Crider, E.A., Jr., 2022, Database for the geologic map of the South Boston 30' × 60' quadrangle, Virginia and North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P98AQDR7.

Summary

The 1:100,000-scale geologic map database of the South Boston 30' × 60' quadrangle, Virginia and North Carolina, provides geologic information for the Piedmont along the I-85 and U.S. Route 58 corridors and in the Roanoke River watershed, which includes the John H. Kerr Reservoir and Lake Gaston. The Raleigh terrane (located on the eastern side of the map) contains Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic(?) polydeformed, amphibolite-facies gneisses and schists. The Carolina slate belt of the Carolina terrane (located in the central part of the map) contains Neoproterozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks at greenschist facies. Although locally complicated, the slate-belt structure mapped across the South Boston map area is generally [...]

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SouthBostonVASIM3483BaseMap.zip 89.35 MB application/zip
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SouthBostonVASIM3483OpenAccess.zip 10.91 MB application/zip

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The geologic map of the South Boston 30' × 60' quadrangle is intended to serve as a foundation for applying geologic information to problems involving land use decisions, groundwater availability and quality, earth resources such as natural aggregate for construction, assessment of natural hazards (earthquakes), and engineering and environmental studies for waste disposal sites and construction projects.

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