
Dunes at False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach. Dunes are common features along the Virginia coast.
Dunes are common landforms along Virginia’s sandy coast and its barrier islands.
A Resource for Information on the Commonwealth's Geology
Dunes at False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach. Dunes are common features along the Virginia coast.
Dunes are common landforms along Virginia’s sandy coast and its barrier islands.
In Virginia the Appalachian Plateau province is not particularly ‘plateau-like’, rather the region is characterized by rugged topography and steep slopes. It is a well-dissected upland, and streams draining the region have a classic dendritic drainage pattern. The featured image of Buchanan County (and the surrounding areas of Kentucky and West Virginia) is a shaded relief map […]
When large quantities of magma intrude and solidify in the Earth’s crust they form bodies of intrusive igneous rock known as plutons. The featured image nicely illustrates the edge (geologic contact) of a granitic pluton in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia. The granite is part of the 706 ± 4 million year old […]
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