Virginia Rocks!

A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Old Dominion Albert B. Dickas Profusely and beautifully illustrated throughout, Virginia Rocks! is impressively informative and unreservedly recommended for personal, school, and community library geology studies collections and reading lists.—James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap, Virginia stretches across five distinct regions, each home to unique and amazing geology. In the Coastal Plain’s wedge of fossil-rich sediments, a meteor impact crater–the sixth largest on Earth–helped determine the location of Chesapeake Bay. The Piedmont begins at the Fall Line, the series of East Coast waterfalls that mark the upstream limit to ship navigation, such as Belle Else in Richland, where the turbulent James River erodes potholes in the Petersburg Granite. Rising up from the rolling hills of the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge forms the spine of the state, its hard basalt and gneisses on display at Shenandoah National Park. Farther w