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Geometries and Mechanisms of Thrusting, with special reference to the Appalachians
Editor(s)
Geological Society of America
Copyright:
© 1988 Geological Society of America
Geological Society of America
ISBN print:
9780813722221
Publication date:
January 01, 1988
Book Chapter
Origin and palinspastic significance of a fault duplex near Cartersville, Georgia
Author(s)
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Published:January 01, 1988
A late Paleozoic fault duplex forms a structural culmination in the Blue Ridge-Piedmont thrust plate near Cartersville, Georgia. The duplex contains at least three major lens-shaped horses, stacked vertically and bounded by faults that branch from the sole of the Blue Ridge-Piedmont plate. The duplex telescopes older Paleozoic structures and metamorphic fabrics that are related to Taconic thrusting of the Blue Ridge over the North American shelf. The duplex, embedded in the sole of the Blue Ridge-Piedmont plate, may have been detached from the area of the Pine Mountain window in the central Georgia Piedmont, and horizontally displaced 130 km during formation of the Valley and Ridge fold and thrust belt.
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Appalachians
- Bartow County Georgia
- Blue Ridge Province
- Cambrian
- Cartersville Georgia
- cleavage
- displacements
- duplexes
- evolution
- fabric
- facies
- faults
- folds
- Georgia
- greenschist facies
- Lower Cambrian
- North America
- orogeny
- Paleozoic
- Piedmont
- Pine Mountain Window
- Rome Formation
- structural geology
- Taconic Orogeny
- tectonics
- thrust faults
- United States
- Shady Formation
- Weisner Formation
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