The Culpeper Basin is one of the Newark Supergroup's Late Triassic–Early Jurassic rift basins, exposed in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Its development is tied to the initial rifting of the supercontinent Pangea (~201 Ma, across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary).
The Culpeper Basin is one of the Newark Supergroup's Late Triassic–Early Jurassic rift basins, exposed in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Its development is tied to the initial rifting of the supercontinent Pangea (~201 Ma, across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary).
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