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The Triassic Basins of the Carolinas occur in four narrow bands and have unusual Piedmont geology of unmetamorphosed shales, sandstones, mudstones, siltstones, and conglomerates.
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In the extreme south-west there are unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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Each basin consists of unmetamorphosed Mesozoic rocks that were downfaulted into much older metamorphic and igneous material.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Grogan Fault, along which much of the main channel of Redwood Creek flows, is a major structural feature within the park, separating well foliated meta-sedimentary schists and meta-basalts on the south-west of Redwood Creek from the unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Franciscan to the north-east.
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