Taylorsville Basin

The Taylorsville Basin is an early Mesozoic rift basin that either outcrops, or is present beneath younger deposits, in Virginia and Maryland. It is part of the chain of rift basins along the eastern part of North America that formed during the break-up of the Pangaea supercontinent. It is filled by a fluvial and lacustrine sedimentary sequence of the Newark Supergroup.[1]

  1. ^ LeTourneau, P.M. (2003). "Stratigraphic Architecture and Paleomagnetic Reversal Stratigraphy of the Late Triassic Taylorsville Basin, Virginia and Maryland". In LeTourneau P.M.; Olsen P.E. (eds.). The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12676-2. Retrieved 24 November 2012.