Red Oak Pluton (VAro;0)

Red Oak Pluton

Light-gray, medium-grained, foliated granite to granodiorite. Mineralogy: quartz + potassium feldspar + plagioclase + biotite; accessory minerals include muscovite, apatite, and zircon. Hydrothermal alteration to sericite, epidote, kaolin, and chlorite is common. Geophysical signature: positive radiometric anomaly. This unit is equivalent in part to the Red Oak granite as defined by Laney (1917) and Horton and others (1993).

State	Virginia
Name	Red Oak Pluton
Geologic age	Proterozoic
Lithologic constituents	Major Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granite Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granodiorite
Comments	Carolina Slate Belt; name changed from Red Oak Granite to Red Oak Pluton by Karen Hostettler
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.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 34878
Counties	Charlotte - Halifax

Red Oak Pluton

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.