Nested Paleozoic successor basins in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge
Journal Article
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· Geology; (USA)
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee (USA)
Field studies in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and its southwest extension, the Talladega belt, indicate that in at least three regions, polydeformed and metamorphosed turbidite-dominated sequences unconformably overlie rifted-margin continental-terrace wedge clastic rocks and overlying carbonate-platform deposits. These sequences are (1) the Talladega Group (in the Talladega belt), (2) the Walden Creek Group (along the west flank of the Blue Ridge), and (3) the Mineral Bluff Formation (within the core of the Blue Ridge). Paleontologic evidence indicates that the Talladega and Walden Creek Groups are in part as young as Silurian-Devonian. The presence of these anomalously young sequences unconformably above the trailing-margin stratigraphy in the Blue Ridge brings into question conventional ideas of the timing and nature of the tectonic evolution of the ancient continental margin.
- OSTI ID:
- 5572921
- Journal Information:
- Geology; (USA), Journal Name: Geology; (USA) Vol. 18:11; ISSN GLGYB; ISSN 0091-7613
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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