A general knowledge of the three major divisions known as East, Middle and West Tennessee and the prominent structural features of these divisions is necessary to a comprehensive view of present and future oil developments in the state.
East Tennessee. East Tennessee consists of the Unaka Mountains, (the boundary mountains between North Carolina and Tennessee) and the great valley of East Tennessee, made up of a series of parallel valleys and ridges with the strata steeply folded and in many places faulted. The rocks are of Ordovician and Cambrian ages and are so faulted and folded that it can be...
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