The Geology of Virginia's Blue Ridge
 
    

Old Rag Mountain, composed of the eponymous granite is a coarse-grained, K-feldspar-rich granite with minor amounts of blue quartz

The Old Rag granite is a coarse-grained igneous rock with abundant white feldspar and blue quartz

 
    
APPALACHIAN PLATEAU | VALLEY & RIDGE | BLUE RIDGE | PIEDMONT |COASTAL PLAIN
 

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