By James V. O'Connor
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Published by way of the yank Geophysical Union as a part of the Field journey Guidebooks Series.
Rock Creek Park is a unique position for learning geology. based because the urban park in 1890, Rock Creek Park serves as an oasis within the city surroundings. Rock Creek Valley is a steep craggy Piedmont eroded quarter the place you possibly can become aware of the bedrock, stick to the evolution of the autumn Zone,and degree the topographically remoted Coastal simple gravels. determine 1 is the map of the stops to monitor the final geology.
The Rock Creek Valley is a textbook for examine at the early Paleozoic heritage. Metasedimentary and igneous rocks demonstrate the marine and tectonic tales of a proto-Atlantic Ocean. Metamorphic mineralalogy is decided in folds, faults, and fracture structures. Paleozoic tectonics is roofed at the bluffs unconformable through gravels of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The Cretaceous ancestral Potomac sediments also are transformed into the reduce elevation sediment deposits of past due Cenozoic age (Miocene ? - Holocene). determine 2 is a common geology map of the District. Rock Creek served as a box web site for the fifth overseas Congress for Geologists in 1891. we'll revisit a few of those self same stops nearly a century later and persist with within the footsteps of the early American pioneers: W. J. McGee, N. H. Darton, A. Keith, G. Williams, and B. Willis.
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