Culpeper Basin

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The Culpeper Basin is a geological sedimentary basin in the eastern United States, known for its Triassic-Jurassic rock formations and associated fossil and mineral resources.

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Culpeper Basin canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesozoic rift basin
sedimentary basin
age Mesozoic
boundedBy Piedmont crystalline rocks
contains alluvial fan deposits
fluvial deposits
lacustrine deposits
country United States of America
surface form: United States
formedDuring breakup of Pangaea
geologicalPeriod Jurassic
Triassic
hasClimateDuringDeposition semi-arid
hasDepositionalEnvironment alluvial fans
lakes
river systems
hasEconomicUse building stone source
construction aggregate source
hasFeature diabase dikes
diabase sills
fault-bounded margins
tilted sedimentary strata
knownFor Triassic-Jurassic fossils
aggregate quarries
dimension stone quarries
dinosaur trackways
invertebrate fossils
mineral resources
plant fossils
locatedIn District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Eastern United States
surface form: eastern United States
overlies Paleozoic igneous rocks
Paleozoic metamorphic rocks
partOf Mid-Atlantic Ridge
surface form: Atlantic rift system

Newark Supergroup
rockType basalt
conglomerate
sandstone
shale
siltstone
stratigraphicUnitOf Newark Supergroup
studiedIn economic geology
paleontology
sedimentology
structural geology
tectonicSetting extensional rift setting

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Bull Run Mountains separates Culpeper Basin