• Specimen Number

  44

• Description

  Broken boulder of red quartzite  or quartz-arenite sandstone. Identified by survey staff as a "Cambrian age quartzite"

• Classification

  Sedimentary. Sandstone. Marine.

• Location & Occurrence

  Possibly Rose Hill Formation.  These are Silurian and Cambrian marine sands that include quartz arenites.

• Geological Age

  Plausibly Cambrian or Silurian.

• Geoheritage

  If this is the Rose Hill Formation, this material was hard enough to be worked into archaeological tools.

• Links

  Link to State Geological Map from USGS.  Link to Virginia Geology & Energy Resources. Link to  USGS Description.  Link to artifact source rock.

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