Early to Middle Carnian (Triassic) Flora and Fauna of the Richmond and Taylorsville Basins, Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A.
VMNH Guidebook #1

Bruce Cornet and Paul E. Olsen

$15.00
ISBN 0-9625801-1-2
Softcover
93 pages
8.5"x11"
illustrations
1990

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the flora and fauna of the Richmond basin and the exposed part of the Taylorsville basin, while also giving information on the megaflora of the Deep Run basin.�� Together, the flora and fauna treated in this book provide a view of equatorial conditions during the Carnian, a time when floral diversity was the highest for any Newark Supergroup assemblage.

Geologic Evolution of the Eastern United States Field Trip Guidebook, NE-SE GSA 1991
VMNH Guidebook #2

Edited by Art Schultz and Ellen Compton-Gooding

$10.00
ISBN 0-9625801-2-0
Softcover
312 pages
8.5"x11"
Illustrations
1991

The eleven chapters in this guidebook bring together a wealth of data spanning much of the entire framework of Appalachian and eastern United States geology. As such, it is of interest to both the specialist and the regional geologist. The locations of important outcrops, the detailed site descriptions, and the comprehensive reference lists will prove useful for a wide range of geologists and geology students.

Stratford Hall Plantation and Westmoreland State Park: Physical and Cultural Geography, Geology, and Paleontology
VMNH Guidebook #3

Linda B. Rohr, Michael E. Lewis, and L.W. Ward, eds. 1-93. 2002. 

$12.00
Electronic book
2002

For more information, please contact Dr. Alton Dooley at 276-634-4xxx or at alton.dooley@vmnh.virginia.gov

Eocene and Oligocene Stratigraphy of Southeastern North Carolina
VMNH Guidebook #4

L.W. Ward

$5.00
25 pages

Geology and Paleontology of the Stradford Hall Plantation and Westmoreland State Park
VMNH Guidebook #5

L.W. Ward and A.C. Dooley, Jr.

$5.00
87 pages
2005

Geology in the Southside Virginia Piedmont
VMNH Guidebook #6

Philip Bradley, Bart Cattanach, William Henika, James Hibbard, Mutlu Ozdogan, Eleanora Robbins and Paul Thayer

Edited by W.S. Henika, James Hibbard and James Beard

$5.00
ISBN 1-884549-26-8
Full color softcover
28 pages
8.5"x11"
Photos and illustrations
2006

This one-day field trip provides an overview of a major crustal block, the Milton terrane, within the eastern Piedmont domain of southern Virginia and northern North Carolina. We will also observe rocks that immediately border on the terrane - a Mesozoic basin to the west and an Alleghanian ductile shear zone to the east (Plate 1). The specific motivation for the 2006 trip is to provide a field review of recent regional geologic mapping, petrographic studies, geochemistry and geochronology (Ragland, 1995; Hibbard and others, 1998; Coler and others, 2000; Henika, 2002). This new regional mapping and accompanying analytical work at Florida State, North Carolina State and Syracuse universities have substantially changed the face of southside Virginia Piedmont geology. Major points that have changed since the compilation of the 1993 Virginia State Geologic map in this area by W. S. Henika include:

1. The elimination of a major nappe proposed to be the dominant structure of the eastern Piedmont between Danville and South Boston (Tobish and Glover, 1977) due to lack of continuity of the supposed marker units used to delineate the recumbent fold closure, linking rocks of the Carolina terrane and the Milton terrane.
2. New analytical work shows that the Milton terrane and Carolina terrane are distinct and unrelated crustal blocks, separated by a significant shear zone, the Hyco shear zone, a segment of the central Piedmont shear zone.
3. Analytical work shows conclusively that the Milton terrane rocks are isotopically, geochemically, and geochronologically equivalent to the Chopawamsic terrane in the central Virginia Piedmont.

It is also intended to reacquaint the geological and teaching community with the southside Virginia area as it enters the fifth century of resource exploration and development that began with the first successful English commercial expedition of the London Company now known as the Jamestown Colony. As we saw on the preliminary trips to compile the road log for the 2006 trip; you will see evidence that tobacco, the most successful product developed by the London Company is still a major force here. With our increased understanding of the potential land, mineral and water resources of the Eastern Piedmont Domain, some mineral-based products that the original settlers were seeking but failed to find may yet emerge from beneath the deep and productive soils of the region.