Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
The Coles Hill uranium deposit is located in the Southwest Piedmont region of Virginia. First discovered in the late 1970’s, the property was recently acquired by the newly formed group, Virginia Uranium Inc., with the hopes of mining it in the future. This company has commenced new studies to better understand the geology of the area and the nature of the uranium ore. Though much research has been done on this area, many questions about age relations, structure, and kinematics are still left unanswered. The complex structure of this area plays an important role not only in how the uranium should be mined, but how the uranium ore got to this area. The role of ductile deformation relating to many orogenies, intrusions, and the Brookneal shear zone, along with the brittle deformation associated with the Chatham fault, Mesozoic rifting and dikes are not completely understood yet. The classifications of the area that I made were slightly different than the ones used in the past. I used my classifications to analyze 60 of the many cores of the surrounding area. By better classifications of the surrounding lithology and depicting how cores of the area relate to one another in graphs, the hope of this research is to provide a stepping stone for future studies to solve and better understand the age relations between geologic events, where the uranium is sourced, and other important and necessary structural research on this area.
Date Awarded
2013
Department
Geology
Advisor 1
Christopher M. Bailey
Recommended Citation
Hancock, Sebastion, "A Structural Analysis of the Coles Hill Uranium Deposits in the Piedmont Province of Virginia" (2013). Geology Senior Theses. William & Mary. Paper 290.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/geologyseniors/290
