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Purcell Knob
Purcell
Knob
is a
spur
of the
Blue Ridge Mountain
in
Loudoun County, Virginia
.
The peak
is just
northeast
of the main
ridge
at
Keyes Gap
and
southeast
of
the village
of
Neersville
.
Purcell Knob is
notable
for
exposure
of the
sericitic phyllite
base
of the
Paleozoic
Loudoun Formation
in its antiformal
syncline
.