Elevation 368 m | Prominence 81 m | |
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Location Loudoun County Virginia, U.S. Parent range Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachian Mountains Mountain range Appalachian Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains Similar Short Hill Mountain, Furnace Mountain, Loudoun Heights, Lambs Knoll, Sugarloaf Mountain | ||
Purcell Knob is a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia. The 1,207 feet (368 m) peak is just northeast of the main ridge at Keyes Gap and southeast of the village of Neersville.
Map of Purcell Knob, Blue Ridge, VA 20132, USA
Purcell Knob is notable for exposure of the sericitic phyllite base of the Paleozoic Loudoun Formation in its antiformal syncline.
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