Eastern North America Rift Basins in the context of "Newark Basin"

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👉 Eastern North America Rift Basins in the context of Newark Basin

The Newark Basin is a sediment-filled rift basin located mainly in northern New Jersey but also stretching into south-eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York. It is part of the system of Eastern North America Rift Basins.

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Eastern North America Rift Basins in the context of Boscobel complex

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.

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.

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