Alkali Feldspar Leucogranite

Leucocratic, coarse grained to megacrystic, equigranular to porphyritic granite contains white alkali feldspar phenocrysts and interstitial blue quartz, with accessory biotite, pyroxene, and garnet; primary flow-banding is locally delineated by aligned feldspar phenocrysts. Geophysical signature: positive radiometric anomaly. This lithology occurs as dikes and discrete plutons, comprises migmatitic leucosomes within early or pre-Grenville age layered gneisses, and occurs as xenoliths with in some Grenville-age plutonic rocks. This is a lithologic unit that likely includes rocks spanning a range of ages.
State Virginia
Name Alkali Feldspar Leucogranite
Geologic age Proterozoic Y
Lithologic constituents
Major
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Leucocratic-granitic
Comments Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Middle Proterozoic (Grenville-Age) Plutonic Rocks
References

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1993, Geologic Map of Virginia: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, scale 1:500,000.

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 2003, Digital Representation of the 1993 Geologic Map of Virginia, Publication 174, CD ROM (ISO-9660) contains image file, expanded explanation in pdf, and ESRI shapefiles, scale 1:500,000.

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Counties Albemarle - Amherst - Bedford - Greene - Madison - Nelson - Rappahannock - Warren