Crustal structure of the Southeast Georgia embayment-Carolina trough: Preliminary results of a composite seismic image of a continental suture ( ) and a volcanic passive margin

Journal Article · Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · Geology; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1990)018<1023:CSOTSG>2.3.CO;2· OSTI ID:6356752

Austin, Jr, J A; Stoffa, P L; Phillips, J D ^[1]; Oh, Jinyong ^[2]; Sawyer, D S ^[3]; Purdy, G M; Reiter, E ^[4]; Makris, J ^[5]

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1. Univ. of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin (USA)
2. Univ. of Texas, Austin (USA)
3. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (USA)
4. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA (USA)
5. Universitaet Hamburg, Bundesstrasse, Hamburg (West Germany)

New deep-penetration multichannel seismic reflection data, combined with refraction results and magnetics modeling, support a hypothesis that the Carolina trough is a Mesozoic volcanic passive margin exhibiting a seaward-dipping wedge and associated underplating. The structure of Carolina platform continental crust is consistent with the late Paleozoic continental collision that produced the Appalachians, but imbrication has had no obvious effect on shallower structures produced by Mesozoic extension and volcanism. The origin of prominent magnetic anomalies crossing the Southeast Georgia embayment can be explained by processes attending Mesozoic separation of Africa and North America, and is not related to a Paleozoic continental suture, as previously postulated.

• OSTI ID: 6356752
• Journal Information: Geology; (USA), Vol. 18:10; ISSN 0091-7613
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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58 GEOSCIENCES
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
GEOMORPHOLOGY
SEISMIC SURVEYS
SOUTH CAROLINA
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
CONTINENTAL CRUST
DATA ANALYSIS
GEOLOGIC HISTORY
GEOLOGIC MODELS
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
MAGNETIC SURVEYS
MESOZOIC ERA
ORIGIN
PLATE TECTONICS
REFLECTIVITY
REFRACTIVITY
VOLCANISM
EARTH CRUST
FEDERAL REGION IV
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGY
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
MOUNTAINS
NORTH AMERICA
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SURFACE PROPERTIES
SURVEYS
TECTONICS
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