Jump to content

Culpeper Basin

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 70.106.198.41 (talk) at 02:14, 20 April 2015 (linked "Triassic" in text to Triassic article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The Culpeper Basin is one of the Newark Supergroup's Triassic rift basins.[1] It frames the eastern front of the Appalachian Mountains From Culpeper County, Virginia into Maryland.[1] The Groveton Member of the Bull Run Formation is exposed there.[1] The formations has produced disarticulated fish remains including isolated bones and scales.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d "Manassas National Battlefield Park," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 64.

References

  • Hunt, ReBecca K., Vincent L. Santucci and Jason Kenworthy. 2006. "A preliminary inventory of fossil fish from National Park Service units." in S.G. Lucas, J.A. Spielmann, P.M. Hester, J.P. Kenworthy, and V.L. Santucci (ed.s), Fossils from Federal Lands. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 34, pp. 63–69.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Culpeper_Basin&oldid=657269502"