Gondwanan/peri-Gondwanan origin for the Uchee terrane, Alabama and georgia: Carolina zone or Suwannee terrane(?) and its suture with Grenvillian basement of the Pine Mountain window

Geosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-144

  Steltenpohl, Mark G ^a   Mueller, Paul M ^b   Heatherington, Ann L ^b   Hanley, Thomas B ^c   Wooden, Joseph L ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University System of Georgia   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carolina zone; Gondwana; Peri gondwana; Southern appalachians; Uchee terrane

Indexed keywords

ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GONDWANA; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LAURENTIA; METAIGNEOUS ROCK; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHRIMP DATING; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALABAMA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 41949088849     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00079.1     Document Type: Article

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