Geology at Every Scale: Field Excursions for the 2018 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee

Quaternary faulting along the Dandridge-Vonore fault zone in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone
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Published:March 29, 2018
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R.T. Cox, R.D. Hatcher, Jr., R. Counts, E. Gamble, J. Glasbrenner, K. Warrell, 2018. "Quaternary faulting along the Dandridge-Vonore fault zone in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone", Geology at Every Scale: Field Excursions for the 2018 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, Annette Summers Engel, Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
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ABSTRACT
This field guide describes three accessible sites along the Dandridge-Vonore fault zone in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone. These sites reveal bedrock faulted against Quaternary river sediments, including (1) a thrust fault on the Little River near Alcoa, Tennessee; (2) a series of thrust faults exposed in a drainage ditch that thrust Conasauga Shale against Quaternary colluvium in the footwall; and (3) a normal fault at Tellico Lake near Vonore, Tennessee, with Quaternary sediments faulted against Conasauga Shale.
- alluvium
- Appalachians
- bedrock
- Blount County Tennessee
- Cambrian
- catalogs
- Cenozoic
- clastic sediments
- colluvium
- Conasauga Group
- displacements
- earthquakes
- epicenters
- faults
- field trips
- foot wall
- fractures
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- ground-penetrating radar
- Monroe County Tennessee
- neotectonics
- normal faults
- North America
- paleoseismicity
- Paleozoic
- Quaternary
- radar methods
- road log
- sediments
- seismicity
- seismotectonics
- surveys
- tectonics
- Tennessee
- thrust faults
- trenching
- United States
- Valley and Ridge Province
- eastern Tennessee
- Little River
- Vonore Tennessee
- Eastern Tennessee seismic zone
- Tellico Lake
- Dandridge-Vonore fault zone
- Brakebill Island
- Alcoa Tennessee