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English: Plate XLVII from The Geology of the Richmond Basin published by USGS, which has the following caption:
Post-Newark beds, resting on granite and schist, at Bon Air, Chesterfield County. Looking N. 20° E.
The text of the report refers to the figure as follows:
Horizontal beds of clay and sand resting on granite are seen in the railway cut at Bon Air, east of Midlothian (see Pl. XLVII). These strata are provisionally classed with those of post-Newark age.
Date
Source Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and Jay Backus Woodworth, 1899. Geology of the Richmond Basin, Virginia. U.S. Government Printing Office. United States Geological Survey.
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Post-Newark beds on Southern Railway cut, resting on granite and schist, at Bon Air

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