All Articles tagged Appalachian tectonics

• Science Paper
  March 24, 2023 EDT
  The Geometry and Kinematics of the Latest Paleozoic Allatoona Fault, One of the Youngest Thrusts in the Southernmost Appalachian Hinterland, Alabama and Georgia, U.S.A.
  James F. TullChristopher S. Holm-DenomaNawwaf A. AlmuntshryEricka L. McMahan

  The Allatoona fault is a major out-of-sequence thrust fault cutting lithostratigraphy and metamoprphic isograds, representing the youngest thrust in the kinematic sequence on the west flank of the southern Appalachians.

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• Science Paper
  October 01, 2020 EDT
  Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Nd-Pb Isotope Geochemistry of Blue Ridge Basement in the Eastern Great Smoky Mountains, U.S.A.: Implications for the Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Southeastern Laurentian Margin
  D.P. MoecherF.C. HarrisE.A. LarkinR.J. QuinnK.B. WalshD.F. LoughryE.D. AndersonS.D. SamsonA.M. SatkoskiE. Tohver

  The Mesoproterozoic to Paleozoic history of the southeastern Laurentian margin involved repeated collisional and accretionary tectonomagmatic events that reworked and recycled older continental crust of preceding events. The Great Smoky...

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