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Mole Hill (Virginia)

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in an otherwise relatively flat valley, surrounded by farmland. The peak of Mole Hill is approximately 1,893 feet (577 meters) above sea level.
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Tioga Bentonite, but discovered that the rocks were actually a much younger age of approximately 47 million years, placing them in the
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Fullagar, Paul D.; Bottino, Michael L. (1969). "Tertiary Felsite Intrusions in the Valley and Ridge Province, Virginia".
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outcropping at the crest of the hill is "dark greenish gray to grayish black, medium grained, and moderately
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Jonathan L. Tso; Ronald R. McDowell; Katharine Lee Avary; David L. Matchen & Gerald P. Wilkes (2004).
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approximately 47 million years ago, making it one of the youngest volcanoes on the east coast of
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techniques to date rocks that they thought were temporally related to the
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Geology of the Harrisonburg and Bridgewater quadrangles, Virginia
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basalt
volcanic rock
Eocene
epoch
Paleogene
period
volcano
North America
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Rockingham County
monadnock
basalt
porphyritic
olivine
spinel
pyroxene
olivine
phenocrysts
Ordovician
Beekmantown Group
dikes
Paleozoic
cross-cutting relationships
K-Ar
Rb-Sr
radiometric dating
Devonian

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