Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
Dissimilarities between rock sequences in the Bowen’s Creek fault area in central Virginia have long made the area that separates the Blue Ridge Province from the Piedmont a focal point for geologic interpretation. The Blue Ridge is part of a transitional rift- drift succession of the continental margin to ancestral North America caught- up in a Southern- Appalachian orogenic belt. In Virginia, the Blue Ridge anticlinorium and the Smith River Allochthon has previously been interpreted as two separate structures separated by the Bowen’s Creek fault, however questions have been raised about not only the kinematics of the area, but the existence of the fault as well. Samples were taken in the Bowen’s Creek fault area of the central Virginia Piedmont for a petrographic analysis. These samples taken suggest that no thrusting or direct evidence of faulting is present.
Date Awarded
2014
Department
Geology
Advisor 1
Christopher M. Bailey
Recommended Citation
Campell, D. Parker, "Structural Analysis of the Bowen's Creek Fault, Central Virginia Piedmont" (2014). Geology Senior Theses. William & Mary. Paper 306.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/geologyseniors/306
