Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Peters Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Giles County, Virginia
Open-File Report
78-1077-C
By: Norma Rait and Frank Gardner Lesure
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Abstract
Semiquantitative emission spectrographic analyses for 64 elements on 43 stream sediment and 73 rock samples from Peters Mountain Wilderness Study area, Giles County, Virginia, are reported here in detail. Locations for all samples are in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. Brie[ descriptions of rock samples are also included. Rocks analysed are mostly sandstone. Samples of hematitic sandstone of the Rose Hill Formation and limonite-cemented sandstone of the Rocky Gap Sandstone contain high values of iron; these rocks are submarginal iron resources. Some of the same iron-rich samples have a little more barium, copper, cobalt, lead, silver, and/or zinc then average sandstone, but they do not suggest the presence of economic deposits of these metals. No other obviously anomalous values related to mineralized rock are present in the data.
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Rait, N., and Lesure, F.G., 1978, Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Peters Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Giles County, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-1077, 16 p. ;27 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr781077C.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Peters Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Giles County, Virginia |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 78-1077 |
| Chapter | C |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr781077C |
| Year Published | 1978 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Description | 16 p. ;27 cm. |