Ultramafic Rocks of the Appalachian Piedmont

The Burks Mountain complex, Kiokee belt, southern Appalachian Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia
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Published:January 01, 1989
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Paul E. Sacks, Harmon D. Maher, Jr., Donald T. Secor, Jr., John W. Shervais, 1989. "The Burks Mountain complex, Kiokee belt, southern Appalachian Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia", Ultramafic Rocks of the Appalachian Piedmont, Steven K. Mittwede, Edward F. Stoddard
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A region of migmatitic felsic paragneiss and pelitic schist containing concordant pods of serpentinite, talc schist, talc-amphibole schist, amphibolite, and metagabbro—here called the Burks Mountain complex—occurs in the southeastern limb of the Kiokee antiform, an Alleghanian D3 structure in the eastern Piedmont of Georgia and South Carolina. A similar region of migmatitic felsic paragneiss containing small pods of metamorphosed mafic and ultramafic rocks, which occurs in the northwestern limb of the Kiokee antiform, is inferred to be a continuation of the Burks Mountain complex across the crest of the antiform. The composition of the felsic paragneiss and pelitic schist...
- Alleghany Orogeny
- amphibolites
- Appalachians
- basement
- Carolina slate belt
- chemical composition
- cumulates
- deformation
- evolution
- Georgia
- gneisses
- high-grade metamorphism
- Kiokee Belt
- lithostratigraphy
- mafic composition
- metagabbro
- metaigneous rocks
- metamorphic rocks
- metamorphism
- metasedimentary rocks
- North America
- occurrence
- paragneiss
- petrology
- Piedmont
- protoliths
- regional metamorphism
- schists
- shear zones
- South Carolina
- Southern Appalachians
- structural geology
- tectonics
- tectonite
- terranes
- textures
- United States
- whole rock
- Burks Mountain Complex
- Modoc Zone