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Photographs from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia (Callaway 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 Callaway quadrangle, but are also part of a larger data release (Carter et al., 2016). For Callaway, there are 5 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 Ridge [...]

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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CL-8 folded quartz veins in metagraywacke.JPG thumbnail 2.1 MB image/jpeg
CL-26 layered biotite felsic gneiss.JPG thumbnail 2.1 MB image/jpeg
CL-33 well foliated biotite felsic granitoid gneiss.JPG thumbnail 2.17 MB image/jpeg
CL-46 mylonite in biotite felsic gneiss.JPG thumbnail 2.16 MB image/jpeg
CL-47 mylonitic leucocratic augen gneiss.JPG thumbnail 2.17 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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