Boscobel complex

Boscobel complex
Stratigraphic range: Paleozoic
Bottom of Luck Stone Quarry showing interfingering of gray gneiss and white leucogranite
Typemetamorphic and igneous
Lithology
Primarygranite
Othergneiss
Location
RegionVirginia
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forBoscabel Ferry
Named byShaler and Woodworth, 1899[1]

The Boscobel complex (originally "Boscabel bowlder beds") is unit of interlayered granite and gneiss within Goochland and Powhatan Counties, Virginia. The area had been mapped as the Petersburg Granite in 1970 by B. K. Goodwin.[2]

The complex is mapped in a single, fault-bound area (horst) approximately 9 km long. It lies on the west side of the Richmond Basin, a Mesozoic rift basin, and on the east margin of the Goochland Terrane, a section of the Piedmont of Virginia that is tectonically distinct from the surrounding rocks. It is quarried for aggregate at the Boscobel Plant of the Luck Stone Corporation, near Manakin.[3][4]

Description

The Boscobel complex's consists of two interfingered lithologies, a two-mica gneiss and a leucogranite. The gneiss is foliated and quartzofeldspathic with quartz, plagioclase, muscovite, biotite, and chlorite, with some alkali feldspar. The leucogranite is primarily quartz and feldspar with some garnet.[5]

  • Sample of the leucogranite
    Sample of the leucogranite
  • Gneiss sample
    Gneiss sample

Exposures

The type section, originally called the "Boscabel bowlder beds" when the extent of the horst was unknown, was named from exposures at a Boscabel Ferry on the James River near Manakin.[1]

The largest exposure is the quarry pit of the Boscobel Plant of the Luck Stone Corporation, near the type section. An overlook above the quarry is available to the public.

1899 photograph of the type section along the Southern Railway[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Shaler, N. S., and Woodworth, J. B., 1899. Geology of the Richmond Basin, Virginia, Washington: Government Printing Office. Google Book
  2. ^ Goodwin, B. K., 1970. Geology of the Hylas and Midlothian quadrangles, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Report of Investigations 23. Map Scale: 1:24,000.
  3. ^ David B. Spears, Nick H. Evans, Patrick C. Finnerty, and Katherine E. Lang, 2022. The Goochland Terrane Revisited – Insights from Recent Mapping, Geophysics, and Geochronology. The 52nd Annual Virginia Geological Field Conference, November 11–12, 2022. (Fieldtrip guidebook)
  4. ^ Bartholomew, Mervin J.; Tollo, Richard P. (2004). "Northern ancestry for the Goochland terrane as a displaced fragment of Laurentia". Geology. 32 (8): 669. Bibcode:2004Geo....32..669B. doi:10.1130/g20520.1.
  5. ^ Spears, D. B. and Occhi, M. E., 2020, Geologic map of the Midlothian quadrangle, Virginia: Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources Open-file Report 2020-05, 1:24,000-scale map.


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