The Cat Square terrane: Possible Siluro-Devonian remnant ocean basin in the Inner Piedmont, southern Appalachians, USA

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 553-565

  Merschat, Arthur J ^a   Hatcher Jr , Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acadian clastic wedge; Appalachians; Cat square terrane; Inner piedmont; Neoacadian; Remnant: Ocean basin; Transpression

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; LANDFORMS; MAGNESITE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACADIAN CLASTIC WEDGE; APPALACHIANS; CAT SQUARE TERRANE; INNER PIEDMONT; NEO ACADIANS; OCEAN BASINS; TRANSPRESSION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACADIAN; DEFORMATION; DEVONIAN; FAULT ZONE; GRANITE; LAURENTIA; METAMORPHISM; MISSISSIPPIAN; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; PIEDMONT; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; TERRANE; TRANSPRESSION;

ALABAMA; APPALACHIANS; CAROLINA; MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PUERTO RICO; TOLUCA; UNITED STATES;

TOLUCA;

EID: 77949861237     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(27)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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