Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Rockbounding Basics 4
Geology 12
Natural Resources 26
How to Use This Guide 31
Map Legend 34
Coastal Plain
1 Indian Field Creek Fossils 36
2 Chippokes Plantation State Park Fossils 40
3 Lake Matoaka Spillway Fossils 43
4 York River State Park Fossils 46
5 Westmoreland State Park Shark Teeth 49
6 Caledon State Park Shark Teeth 53
7 Leesylvania State Park Sandstone 56
8 Government Island Sandstone Quarry 59
9 Alum Spring Park Wood Fossils 63
Piedmont
10 Windy Run Quartz and Schorl 68
11 Turkey Run Steatite and Sillimanite 72
12 Great Falls of the Potomac Gneiss 76
13 Leesburg Potomac Marble 80
14 Evergreen Mills Banded Metasediments 83
15 Hadensville Metapyroxenite 87
16 Schuyler Soapstone Quarry 91
17 Scufflin Acres Farms Amethyst 94
18 Pittsylvania Wayside Park Feldspar and Mica 97
19 Leesville Actinolite Schist 101
20 Fairy Stone State Park Scricite-Staurolite Crosses 104
Blue Ridge
21 Happy Creek Epidotized Gramite and Metabasalt 108
22 Front Roval Chrysotile in Metabasalt 112
23 Compton Peak Columnar Metabasalt 115
24 Rose River Granite and Unakite 118
25 Stanley Unakite 122
26 Kennedy Mine Limonite and Manganese Oxides 125
27 Mount Torry Mine Limonite and Hematite 129
28 Pkin Limonite 132
29 Little Marys Creek Unakite 136
30 Vesuvius Unakite Quarry 139
31 Tye River Blue Quartz 142
32 Rosebud Blue Quartz 146
Valley and Ridge
33 Gainesboro Fossils 150
34 Gore Fossils 154
35 Elizabeth Furnace Slag, Limonite, and Hematite 157
36 Fort Valley Road Fossils 161
37 Mine Gap Furnace Slag and Limonite 164
38 Columbia Furnace Fossils 167
39 Brocks Gap Limonite-Stained Rocks 171
40 Fulks Run Fossils and Calcite 175
41 Maury River Pink and White Sandstone 178
42 Lexington Fossils and Calcite 183
43 Effinger Fossils 187
44 Callie Furnace Slag and Limonite 190
45 Roaring Run Furnace Glassy Slag 196
46 Rich Patch Banded Sediments 203
47 Covington Ochre and Limonite 203
48 Peters Mountain Limonite 206
References 210
Site Index 213
Index 214
About the Author 216