Selected Ultramafic and Related Rocks of the Southern Appalachian Orogen
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven K. Mittwede
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 112
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Published: 1984
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert D. Hatcher
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Published: 1989
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Williams
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 951
ISBN-13: 0813754518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on the Canadian Appalachian region. The chapter on the East Greenland Caledonides stands alone and there is no attempt to integrate the geological accounts of the two far removed regions. Rocks of the Canadian Appalachian region are described under four broad temporal divisions: lower Paleozoic and older, middle Paleozoic, upper Paleozoic, and Mesozoic. The rocks of these temporal divisions define geographic zones, belts, basins, and graben, respectively. The area is of special interest because so many modern concepts of mountain building are based on Appalachian rocks & structures.
Author: Yildirim Dilek
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 9781862391451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 32 papers in this volume examine the mode and nature of igneous, metamorphic, tectonic, sedimentological, and biological processes associated with the evolution of oceanic crust in different tectonic settings in Earth history as revealed in various ophiolites and ophiolite belts around the world, and the geodynamic significance of these ophiolites in the evolution of different orogenic systems. Divided into six thematic sections, the book presents a wealth of new data and syntheses from mainly Phanerozoic ophiolites around the world.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaconic orogenesis along the eastern Laurentian margin was a dynamic tectonic event during the Ordovician that has been difficult to reconcile until as of late. The record of the Taconic orogeny is complex, and each section of the Appalachians has different geologic attributes that are unique to that specific section. In the northern and central Appalachians, the record of Taconic orogenesis is well preserved and understood, but in the southern Appalachians there are discrepancies in subduction style that suggest a different manor of tectonic evolution occurred. The probable model for the southern Appalachians suggests a B-type subduction system, where the Dadeville complex represents a marginal volcanic arc, due to a subduction polarity reversal north of the Virginia promontory, relative to the northern Appalachians during the Taconic orogeny, causing Laurentian continental lithosphere to override subducting Iapetan oceanic lithosphere. This model depicts the fringing Dadeville complex arc and associated Wedowee-Emuckfaw-Dahlonega back-arc basin originating on distended Laurentian crust, fueled by extensional rather than convergent tectonics.The Dadeville complex is a large klippe located in the Alabama and Georgia Inner Piedmont of the southern Appalachian orogen lying immediately above rocks of the eastern Blue Ridge, Brevard Zone, and Opelika Group in the core of the Tallassee/Newnan-Tucker synform. The Dadeville complex consists of an array of metaigneous, metaplutonic, and metasedimentary rocks including the Ropes Creek Amphibolite, a bimodal metabasalt/metatuff, metadacite at the base, overlain by the Agricola Schist, a metaturbidite consisting of metapelite, metagreywacke, and minor metabasalt. The Chattasofka Creek Gneiss (granite) is intrusive into the Agricola Schist, Ropes Creek Amphibolite, and a mafic-ultramafic suite. The Camp Hill Gneiss (tonalite) is intrusive into the Ropes Creek Amphibolite. Also intrusive into the Agricola Schist is a mafic-ultramafic suite consisting of the Doss Mountain and Slaughters Gabbro units. There are a multitude of mafic-ultramafic suites and felsic plutonic rocks in the Dadeville complex that span from Camp Hill, Alabama to southeast Atlanta, Georgia that have been identified over the course of this research. Distinctive major and trace element geochemical signatures of the felsic intrusives, Ropes Creek Amphibolite, and various mafic-ultramafic suites all suggest formation within a volcanic arc environment. U/Pb dating of detrital zircons in the Agricola Schist, and equivalent metasedimentary rocks, as well as igneous zircons in the Chattasofka Creek Gneiss, Camp Hill Gneiss, and Ropes Creek Amphibolite yield Middle Ordovician ages, with the Agricola Schist also containing a subordinate fraction of Grenville and Granite-Rhyolite Province ages. Additionally, the Camp Hill Gneiss, Chattasofka Creek Gneiss, and Doss Mountain and Slaughters Gabbro suites all exhibit negative initial epsilon Nd (ENdi) values indicative of a continental origin. These relationships suggest that the Dadeville Complex volcanic arc, and the associated Wedowee-Emuckfaw-Dahlonega back-arc basin, resulted from a B-type suprasubduction system where Iapetan oceanic lithosphere subducted beneath a distended Laurentian continental plate, and that there could be other Taconic arc fragments in the southern Appalachians, akin to or apart of the Dadeville complex, that have yet to be identified.
Author: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 0813754526
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