Rifted-margin architecture, cover stratigraphy, and structure of basement culminations, frontal Appalachian Blue Ridge, Georgia, USA

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 567-594

  Tull, James F ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian; Basement massifs; Blue ridge; Ocoee supergroup; Two stage rifting

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

APPALACHIAN; BASEMENT MASSIFS; BLUE RIDGES; OCOEE SUPERGROUP; TWO-STAGE RIFTING;

BUILDINGS;

ALLEGHANIAN; BASIN; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FAULTING; LAURENTIA; METAMORPHISM; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; THRUST;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949799229     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(28)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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