by E.H. Ern, 6 x 9-inch soft-cover book, 45 pages, 1 plate includes folded 19 x 28-inch color 1:62,500-scale geologic map, 23 figures, 1 table, 1968. Report discusses the stratigraphy, structure, metamorphism, and economic geology of the Buckingham 15-minute quadrangle in Buckingham, Nelson, and Albemarle counties. The economic geology section describes the soapstone mining industry at the time of publication. Blue Ridge cover rocks, Piedmont igneous and metamorphic rocks, Triassic-age sedimentary rocks, and recent alluvium are depicted on geologic map with cross-section. Location of soapstone, marble, manganese, hematite, and quartz mines, quarries and prospects are plotted on the map.
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