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Wilcox deposits in explosion craters, Stewart County, Tennessee, and their relations to origin and age of Wells Creek Basin structure
Charles William Wilson
Wilcox deposits in explosion craters, Stewart County, Tennessee, and their relations to origin and age of Wells Creek Basin structure
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (July 1953) 64 (7): 753-768
Wilcox deposits in explosion craters, Stewart County, Tennessee, and their relations to origin and age of Wells Creek Basin structure
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (July 1953) 64 (7): 753-768
Index Terms/Descriptors
- age
- analyses
- analysis
- Cenozoic
- clastic sediments
- clay
- clays
- cores
- correlations
- craters
- economic geology
- Eocene
- heavy minerals
- historical geology
- Paleogene
- physical geology
- physiographic geology
- Precambrian
- sediments
- Stewart County Tennessee
- Tennessee
- Tertiary
- United States
- Wilcox Formation
- meteoritic origin
- Wells Creek basin meteoritic explosion crater
- explosion craters and Wells Creek basin
- Mississippian-Eocene
- Wells Creek basin area
- explosion-crater deposits
- clay deposits in explosion craters
- explosion craters
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Four small deposits of Wilcox sediments occur in Stewart County, Tennessee. One of these deposits is in the inner depressed ring, or crater, of the Wells Creek Basin structure. It is concluded that these four craters had a common post-Eutaw, pre-Wilcox age and common origin by the impact and resulting explosions of fragments of a meteor. A 2000-foot core drilled in the center of Wells Creek Basin is summarized.
ISSN: 1050-9747
Coden: BUGMAF
Serial Title: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Serial Volume: 64
Serial Issue: 7
Title: Wilcox deposits in explosion craters, Stewart County, Tennessee, and their relations to origin and age of Wells Creek Basin structure
Author(s): Wilson, Charles William, Jr.
Pages: 753-768
Published: 195307
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
Accession Number: 1959-033637
Categories: Economic geology, general
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. geol. sketch map
N36°19'60" - N36°40'00", W88°04'60" - W87°34'60"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2019, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Update Code: 1959
