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Mitchell Dam amphibolite along Alabama Highway 22, east-central Chilton and west-central Coosa Counties, Alabama Available to Purchase

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Karen F. Rheams, David Allison, James F. Tull
Book: Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America
Series: DNAG, Centennial Field Guides
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 January 1986
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-5406-2.301
EISBN: 9780813754123
... Abstract The Mitchell Dam Amphibolite is located along the Coosa River 9 miles (14.5 km) east of Clanton near the center of the Mitchell Dam 7½-minute quadrangle, Chilton and Coosa Counties, Alabama (Fig. 1). Two excellent outcrops illustrate the mineralogical, textural, and structural...
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Abstract The Mitchell Dam Amphibolite is located along the Coosa River 9 miles (14.5 km) east of Clanton near the center of the Mitchell Dam 7½-minute quadrangle, Chilton and Coosa Counties, Alabama (Fig. 1). Two excellent outcrops illustrate the mineralogical, textural, and structural complexity of the amphibolite. Both exposures are easily accessible, located near the shoulder of Alabama 22.

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Map of east-central Alabama showing location of the Goldville and Devil’s Backbone districts described herein; polygon shows area of most historic gold production in Alabama. Also plotted are former gold occurrences and graphical results (red circles) of stream sediment geochemical analyses for arsenic, where largest red circles represent stream sediment As values &gt;23 ppm (reanalysis of NURE samples). Names listed in blue are county names. Map modified from Goldhaber et al. (2001).

Map of east-central Alabama showing location of the Goldville and Devil’s B... Available to Purchase

Published: 01 July 2013
FIGURE 2. Map of east-central Alabama showing location of the Goldville and Devil’s Backbone districts described herein; polygon shows area of most historic gold production in Alabama. Also plotted are former gold occurrences and graphical results (red circles) of stream sediment geochemical
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Surface Occurence of Cretaceous Beds in the Southeastern States: ABSTRACT Free

Watson H. Monroe
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 November 1946
AAPG Bulletin (1946) 30 (11): 1963–1964.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/3D9338A8-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D
.... These crop out in an arc extending from Marion County in northwestern Alabama to the Coosa River Valley in east-central Alabama. The formations equivalent to the Eagle Ford formation are the Gordo formation at the top of the Tuscaloosa group and the McShan formation, formerly considered the lower part...
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Heavy minerals of Horn Island, northern Gulf of Mexico Available to Purchase

William E. Harrison
Published: 01 June 1973
Journal of Sedimentary Research (1973) 43 (2): 391–395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/74D72770-2B21-11D7-8648000102C1865D
...William E. Harrison Abstract The heavy mineral assemblage of Horn Island is highly diagnostic of a metamorphic source area. The crystalline metamorphic region in east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia which is drained by the South Alabama and Apalachicola Rivers and their respective...
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Volcanogenic sulfide deposits in the southernmost Appalachians Available to Purchase

Thornton L. Neathery, Victor F. Hollister
Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 November 1984
Economic Geology (1984) 79 (7): 1540–1560.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.79.7.1540
...Thornton L. Neathery; Victor F. Hollister Abstract Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in the southernmost Appalachians of east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia are associated with metamorphosed submarine basalts and felsic rocks of the Ashland, Wedowee, and Talladega lithotectonic...
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Post-depositional subaerial weathering effects on the mineralogy of an upper Cretaceous sand in southeastern United States Available to Purchase

Norman C. Hester
Published: 01 June 1974
Journal of Sedimentary Research (1974) 44 (2): 363–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/74D72A31-2B21-11D7-8648000102C1865D
...Norman C. Hester Abstract The Upper Cretaceous Cusseta Sand, which crops out in east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia, occurs frequently as cuestas. The lithologies range from a clayey sand to a fine- to a coarse-grained, moderately well sorted sand. Because of their topographic position...
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Upper crustal structure of Alabama from regional magnetic and gravity data: Using geology to interpret geophysics, and vice versa Open Access

Mark G. Steltenpohl, J. Wright Horton, Jr., Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., Isidore Zietz, David L. Daniels, Michael W. Higgins
Journal: Geosphere
Published: 01 August 2013
Geosphere (2013) 9 (4): 1044–1064.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00703.1
... at an interval of 5 milligals (mGal). Figure 4. Major crustal features from Figure 3 superposed on a Bouguer gravity anomaly map of Alabama. Neathery et al. (1976 , 1977b) produced a total-count radioactivity map of the exposed crystalline Appalachians in east-central Alabama. Total count...
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Stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous Series in Mississippi and Alabama Available to Purchase

Lloyd W. Stephenson, Watson H. Monroe
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 December 1938
AAPG Bulletin (1938) 22 (12): 1639–1657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/3D933022-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D
... 2,300 feet. The Tuscaloosa formation is thickest in west-central Alabama, but thins northwestward to a feather edge in Tennessee, and thins toward the east to about 250 feet near Chattahoochee River. The Eutaw formation overlies the Tuscaloosa, from which it is separated by an important unconformity...
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Stratigraphic Significance of Graptolites of Athens Shale: PART 1 Available to Purchase

Charles E. Decker
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 January 1952
AAPG Bulletin (1952) 36 (1): 1–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/3D9343D3-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D
... important, zone extends from central Alabama to northern Virginia; and the highest zone begins near Johnsville Church east of Blacksburg, Virginia, and develops northeastward through Harrisonburg to the higher of two zones at Staunton, and to Overall, Virginia. Significantly, the major part of the great...
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Nannoplankton Biostratigraphy and Sedimentary Petrology of a Vertical Facies Sequence Crossing the Campanian-Maestrichtian Boundary in Central Alabama: ABSTRACT Free

N. C. Hester, J. B. Risatti
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 September 1972
AAPG Bulletin (1972) 56 (9): 1899.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/819A4144-16C5-11D7-8645000102C1865D
... suggests that the clastic wedge, building southeastward from central Georgia and represented by the Cusseta Sand in east and central Alabama, is time-transgressive as the unit progrades from east to west. Although a Demopolis Chalk lithology (calcareous clay) appears above the basal Ripley Sand (Cusseta...
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Lower carboniferous of the Appalachian basin Available to Purchase

JOHN J. STEVENSON
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 January 1903
GSA Bulletin (1903) 14 (1): 15–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-14-15
... to apply the facts in a discussion of the origin of coal and coal beds. Appalachian basin, as here used, refers to the area bounded at the east by the old Appalachian land, at the west by the Cincinnati uplift to central Kentucky, and thence southward to Alabama by the area whence erosion has removed...
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Age of Jurassic volcanism and tectonism, southern Owens Valley region, east-central California Available to Purchase

GEORGE C. DUNNE, J. DOUGLAS WALKER
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 September 1993
GSA Bulletin (1993) 105 (9): 1223–1230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1993)105<1223:AOJVAT>2.3.CO;2
...GEORGE C. DUNNE; J. DOUGLAS WALKER Abstract Remnants of the eastern fringe of the volcanic and volcanogenic sedimentary cover of the Mesozoic Sierra Nevada batholith are exposed in the southern Inyo Mountains and adjacent Alabama Hills of east-central California. Six new U-Pb dates on volcanic...
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Seismic expression of structural style in Norphlet Formation, offshore Alabama Available to Purchase

Bennett L. Bearden, Robert M. Mink
Journal: Geophysics
Published: 01 October 1989
Geophysics (1989) 54 (10): 1230–1239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/1.1442582
... an excellent seismic case study for the structural style in the deep Norphlet play. The field may be used as a geophysical exploration model for other Jurassic structures in offshore Alabama and the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico. Interpretation of the seismic data and maps indicates that Norphlet...
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Gulf Coast Regional Q and Boundaries from USArray Data Available to Purchase

Chris H. Cramer
Published: 19 December 2017
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018) 108 (1): 437–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170170
... Attenuation‐East Project (NGA‐East; Dreiling et al. , 2014 ) regionalization studies, which are based on few direct Q observations. The observed boundary location is roughly coincident with the Thomas (2010) Alabama–Oklahoma transform and the Ouachita thrust, except it extends more into central Oklahoma...
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Depositional Environments and Petroleum Geology of Jurassic Eolian Deposits (Norphlet Formation), Eastern Gulf of Mexico Area: ABSTRACT Free

Ernest A. Mancini
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 November 1987
AAPG Bulletin (1987) 71 (11): 1441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/703C80C4-1707-11D7-8645000102C1865D
..., such as the Mobile graben. In Mississippi, several Norphlet fields are located near the Jackson dome, a Cretaceous igneous intrusion. The Norphlet fields discovered in offshore Alabama are along the Lower Mobile Bay fault trend. The petroleum traps in the offshore area include a series of generally east-west...
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Stratigraphy Along Chattahoochee River, Connecting Link Between Atlantic and the Gulf Coastal Plains Available to Purchase

Lyman D. Toulmin, Philip E. LaMoreaux
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 March 1963
AAPG Bulletin (1963) 47 (3): 385–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/BC743A51-16BE-11D7-8645000102C1865D
..., and is a connecting link between the well known standard section and type exposures on the west in Alabama and equivalent strata on the east in Georgia and South Carolina. It is important also because of its intermediate position between the clastic facies in the central and western Gulf Coastal Plain...
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Eastern Piedmont fault system: Speculations on its extent Available to Purchase

Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., David E. Howell, Pradeep Talwani
Journal: Geology
Published: 01 October 1977
Geology (1977) 5 (10): 636–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1977)5<636:EPFSSO>2.0.CO;2
... system. Characteristic magnetic anomalies were found to be associated with known faults and were used to trace them through covered intervals. The fault system extends northeastward from the Goat Rock fault of Alabama and west-central Georgia, crossing the lower Piedmont of South Carolina, passes beneath...
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Depositional History and Paleotectonic Framework of Comanchean Cretaceous Trinity Stage, Gulf Coast Area Available to Purchase

James M. Forgotson, Jr.
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 January 1963
AAPG Bulletin (1963) 47 (1): 69–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/BC743971-16BE-11D7-8645000102C1865D
... control was used. The maps of the area from central Texas to western Alabama include 375 control points over approximately 108,500 square miles with an average of one well per eight townships. The well control was more than adequate for the maps of the central part of the study area, East Texas...
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From Jurassic shores to Cretaceous plutons: Geochemical evidence for paleoalteration environments of metavolcanic rocks, eastern California Available to Purchase

Sorena S. Sorensen, George C. Dunne, R. Brooks Hanson, Mark D. Barton, Jennifer Becker, Othmar T. Tobisch, Richard S. Fiske
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 March 1998
GSA Bulletin (1998) 110 (3): 326–343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0326:FJSTCP>2.3.CO;2
...Sorena S. Sorensen; George C. Dunne; R. Brooks Hanson; Mark D. Barton; Jennifer Becker; Othmar T. Tobisch; Richard S. Fiske Abstract Volcanic and plutonic rocks exposed in east-central California record a long history of metasomatism and/or metamorphism within the Mesozoic Cordilleran continental...
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Norphlet Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Southwestern and Offshore Alabama: Environments of Deposition and Petroleum Geology Available to Purchase

Ernest A. Mancin, Robert M. Mink, Bennett L. Bearden, Richard P. Wilkerson
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1985
AAPG Bulletin (1985) 69 (6): 881–898.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/AD462B14-16F7-11D7-8645000102C1865D
... of southwestern Alabama was rather broad, extending westward into eastern and central Mississippi where the upper Norphlet has been determined as eolian by Hartman (1968) , Badon (1975), and McBride (1981) . The desert plain was bordered on the north and east by the Appalachians and to the south by a developing...
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