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Photographs from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia (Big Levels 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 Levels quadrangle, but are also part of a larger data release (Carter et al., 2016). For Big Levels, there are 28 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

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Big Levels_Photographs_BLRI_Virginia.xml
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BL-185 pillows in metabasalt.JPG thumbnail 2.05 MB image/jpeg
BL-213 coarse to megacrystic qtz feldspar granitoid.JPG thumbnail 2.11 MB image/jpeg
BL-309 overturned thin banded sandstone and quartzite.JPG thumbnail 2.19 MB image/jpeg
BL-314 thin banded sandstone and quartzite.JPG thumbnail 2.09 MB image/jpeg
BL-316 colluvial cut.jpg thumbnail 9.4 MB image/jpeg
BL-369 scree slope in Antietam quartzite.JPG thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg
BL-37 S0-S1 in Unicoi.JPG thumbnail 2.2 MB image/jpeg
BL-382 qtz pebble conglomerate.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BL-392 qtz pebble conglomerate.JPG thumbnail 2.03 MB image/jpeg
BL-394 qtz pebble conglomerate.JPG thumbnail 2.06 MB image/jpeg
BL-399 x-bedded pebbly quartzite.JPG thumbnail 2.08 MB image/jpeg
BL-41 fault in Unicoi.JPG thumbnail 2.16 MB image/jpeg
BL-413 qtz pebble conglomerate.JPG thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg
BL-415 qtz pebble conglomerate.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BL-416 bedding-cleavage relationships.JPG thumbnail 2.08 MB image/jpeg
BL-418 quartzite cliffs.JPG thumbnail 1.93 MB image/jpeg
BL-424 megacrystic granitoid.JPG thumbnail 2.15 MB image/jpeg
BL-439 stratified clay.JPG thumbnail 2.09 MB image/jpeg
BL-52 F2 folds in Harpers.JPG thumbnail 2.2 MB image/jpeg
BL-719 skolithos.jpg thumbnail 1,010.94 KB image/jpeg
BL-764 bedded granule quartzite.JPG thumbnail 2.15 MB image/jpeg
BL-83 purple tuffaceous Unicoi.JPG thumbnail 2.15 MB image/jpeg
BL-84 purple rhythmites in Unicoi.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BL-85 purple conglomerate in Unicoi.JPG thumbnail 2.14 MB image/jpeg
BL-872 small faults offsetting graywacke beds.jpg thumbnail 2.17 MB image/jpeg
BL-89 strat relationships.JPG thumbnail 4.94 MB image/jpeg
BL-901 rhyolite dike.jpg thumbnail 3.16 MB image/jpeg
BL-93 conglomerate-greenstone contact.JPG thumbnail 2.18 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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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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