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Photographs from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia (Cumberland Knob 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 Cumberland Knob quadrangle, but are also part of a larger data release (Carter et al., 2016). For Cumberland Knob, there are 14 jpg in the collection. Carter, M.W., Crider, E.A., Southworth, C.S., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 2016, Detailed geologic mapping geodatabase for [...]

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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Cumberland Knob_Photographs_BLRI_Virginia.xml
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CB-36 garnetiferous biotite gneiss.jpg thumbnail 5.17 MB image/jpeg
CB-52 Cardinal Stone Quarry.jpg thumbnail 4.86 MB image/jpeg
CB-71 flattened pebbles or boudinaged qtz vein in gt-mica schist.jpg thumbnail 2.29 MB image/jpeg
CB-133 two foliations in gt-mica gneiss.jpg thumbnail 2.67 MB image/jpeg
CB-17 folds.jpg thumbnail 4.37 MB image/jpeg
CB-29 folds and qtz vein.jpg thumbnail 4.11 MB image/jpeg
CB-31 folds.jpg thumbnail 4.7 MB image/jpeg
CB-35 isoclinal folds.jpg thumbnail 4.17 MB image/jpeg
CB-51 talc-amphibole gneiss in Carndinal Stone Co quarry.jpg thumbnail 2.02 MB image/jpeg
CB-53 two foliations in talc-amphibole gneiss.jpg thumbnail 2.56 MB image/jpeg
CB-69 cleavage in pin-striped mica gneiss.jpg thumbnail 1.97 MB image/jpeg
CB-54 Big Spring.jpg thumbnail 2.41 MB image/jpeg
CB-136 crazy folded pin-striped gneiss.jpg thumbnail 2.84 MB image/jpeg
CB-13 folds.jpg thumbnail 2.81 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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