History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
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5. Surface eruption of diabase. 6. Erosion. 7. Submergence, deposition of Cambrian formations; slight oscillations during their deposition; reduction of land to baselevel. 8. Eastward tilting and deposition of Martinsburg shale; oscillations during later Paleozoic time. 9. Uplift, post-Carboniferous deformation and erosion. 10. Depression and Newark deposition; diabase intrusion. 11. Uplift, Newark deformation; and erosion to Catoctin baselevel. 12. Depression and deposition of Potomac, Magothy, and Severn. 13. Uplift southwestward and erosion to baselevel. 14. Uplift, warping and degradation to Tertiary baselevel; deposition of Pamunkey and Chesapeake. 15. Depression and deposition of Lafayette. 16. Uplift and erosion to lower Tertiary baselevel. 17. Uplift, warping and erosion to Pleistocene baselevel; deposition of high-level Columbia. |
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