Central Appalachian Piedmont and Blue Ridge tectonic transect, Potomac River corridor

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages 135-167

  Southworth, Scott ^a   Drake, Avery Ala ^a   Brezinski, David K ^b   Wintsch, Robert P ^c   Kunk, Michael J ^a   Aleinikoff, John N ^a   Naeser, Charles W ^a   Naeser, Nancy D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Maryland Geological Survey   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Ridge; Geochronology; Paleozoic tectonics; Piedmont; Potomac River

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

'CURRENT; APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGES; FIELD TRIPS; MISSISSIPPIANS; PALEOZOIC; PALEOZOIC TECTONIC; PIEDMONT; POTOMAC RIVER; RIVER CORRIDOR;

TECTONICS;

EID: 84963504545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.fld008(08)     Document Type: Article

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