Southern Appalachian Windows: Comparison of Styles, Scales, Geometry and Detachment Levels of Thrust Faults in the Foreland and Internides of a Thrust-Dominated Orogen: Atlanta, Georgia to Winston-Salem, North Carolina June 28-July 8, 1989

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Southern Appalachian Windows: Comparison of Styles, Scales, Geometry, and Detachment Levels of Thrust Faultsin the Foreland and Internides of a Thrust-dominatedorogen
......Page 5
TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF THE
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL
APPALACHIANS......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
PINE MOUNTAIN TERRANE......Page 17
PIEDMONT TERRANE......Page 18
TOWALIGA FAULT......Page 19
OCMULGEE FAULT......Page 20
TIMING......Page 21
DISCUSSION......Page 24
END OF DAY ONE......Page 26
INTRODUCTION......Page 27
FIELD STOPS......Page 28
STOP 2-1: GOAT ROCK FAULT ZONE
AT SOAP CREEK, GOAT ROCK DAM......Page 29
STOP 2-3: BASEMENT AND COVER
LITHOLOGIES AT CHEWACLA STATE
PARK......Page 31
STOP 2-4: BASEMENT-COVER
CONTACT ALONG COUNTY ROAD
SOUTH TRENDING ROAD OFF OF
SHELL-TOOMER PARKWAY NEAR
CHEWACLA STATE PARK......Page 32
OPTIONAL STOP: BARTLETTS FERRY
FAULT ZONE AT BARTLETTS FERRY
DAM......Page 33
PELL CITY FAULT SYSTEM......Page 35
STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF THE
WINDOWS......Page 37
STOP 3-1. MESOSCOPIC DUPLEXGEOMETRY OF THE TALLADEGATHRUST SHEET AT KAHATCHEEMOUNTAIN......Page 38
STOP 3-3. BRITTLE IMBRICATES OFTHE TALLADEGA THRUST SHEET ATCOLUMBIANA MOUNTAIN......Page 39
STOP 3-6. NORTHWEST LIMB OFKELLEY MOUNTAIN ANTICLINE......Page 40
INTRODUCTION......Page 41
STOP 4-3. Fort McClellan window FortMcClellan......Page 43
STOP 4-4. Fort McClellan window,Middle Ordovician? limestone CaneCreek, Fort McClellan......Page 44
STOP 5-1. Exposure of the Cumberl andPlateau Décollement at Dunlap,Tennessee*......Page 46
STOP 5-4. View From Roosevelt Mountain.......Page 49
STOP 5-5. Abandoned Lambert Brothers Division of Vulcan Materials Company Limestone Quarry**......Page 50
STOp 5-5. Conasauga Group rocks opposite Kingston Steam Plant.......Page 51
STOP 5-6. Knoxville,Saltville fault at Sharp Gap,Tennessee......Page 52
Stop 5-6B. Saltville Fault on the Northeast Side of Sharp Gap......Page 53
DISCUSSION......Page 54
INTRODUCTION......Page 55
STOP 6-2. Miller Cove Syncline......Page 59
STOP 6-6. Deformed Wilhite Slate and Limestone Walden Creek Group at Edgeof Tuckaleechee Cove Window......Page 62
STOP 6-8. Great Smoky Fault at Park Entrance......Page 63
PLEASE NOTE: THIS STOP IS IN
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK. HAMMERS MUST
BE LEFT IN THE VEHICLES.......Page 64
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 66
STRATIGRAPHY......Page 67
GREAT SMOKY-HOLSTON MOUNTAIN
THRUST SHEET......Page 68
DENTON DUPLEX......Page 69
MOUNTAIN CITY WINDOW......Page 70
GREAT SMOKY-HOLSTON MOUNTAIN
THRUST--PULASKI THRUST
RELATIONSHIP......Page 71
SUMMARY......Page 72
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 78
INTRODUCTION......Page 79
STOP 8-3. Linville Falls Fault atLinville Falls......Page 82
STOP 8-4. Metabasalt flows of theMontezuma Member, GrandfatherMountain Formation......Page 83
BASEMENT COMPLEX......Page 84
COVER ROCKS......Page 86
CHARACTER AND TIMING OF
DEFORMATIONAL EVENTS......Page 87
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THE
QUARRY HIGH WALL!!!......Page 89
PLEASE STAY CLEAR OF LEDGES AND
HIGHWALLS!!!......Page 91
ACKNOWLEDGMENT......Page 92
REFERENCES CITED......Page 93