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Paleoenvironmental Analysis And Test Of Stratigraphic Cyclicity In The Nolichucky Shale And Maynardville Limestone (Upper Cambrian) In Central East Tennessee, Lawrence James Weber Jr.
Paleoenvironmental Analysis And Test Of Stratigraphic Cyclicity In The Nolichucky Shale And Maynardville Limestone (Upper Cambrian) In Central East Tennessee, Lawrence James Weber Jr.
Doctoral Dissertations
The Upper Cambrian Nolichucky Shale and Maynardville Limestone (upper Conasauga Group) crop out along a succession of southeastward dipping imbricate thrust sheets, which trend northeast-southwest in the Valley and Ridge of eastern Tennessee. In the vicinity of Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Nolichucky and Maynardville outcrop and drill core have been examined at six localities. The Nolichucky contains an abundance of thick shale and thinly bedded shale and limestone, whereas the Maynardville is composed of very thick-bedded carbonate, predominantly limestone. In central east Tennessee fourteen major lithofacies are identified in the upper Conasauga Group. The Nolichucky/Maynardville sequence is subdivided into three …
Structural Geometries, Fabrics, And Stratigraphic Relationships In The Cades Cove Region, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, Randy R. Walters
Structural Geometries, Fabrics, And Stratigraphic Relationships In The Cades Cove Region, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, Randy R. Walters
Masters Theses
The major structure in the Cades Cove area of the western Great Smoky Mountains is best explained as a polydeformed recumbent fold (nappe) within Precambrian Ocoee Series rocks of the Rabbit Creek thrust sheet. The Elkmont Sandstone, southeast of Cades Cove, is upright and gently southeast dipping and represents the hinterland limb of the thrust nappe. The Cades Sandstone, which is lithologically similar to the Elkmont, occurs northwest of the Coalen Ground thrust and is gently southeast dipping and overturned.
Petrographic investigation of thin sections from Cades and Elkmont units reveals very different textures. Cades samples commonly contain large, fractured …
Structural Geology And Finite Strain Analysis Of The Precambrian Thunderhead Sandstone Along The Greenbrier Fault And The Roundtop Klippe: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, Jonathan C. Lewis
Structural Geology And Finite Strain Analysis Of The Precambrian Thunderhead Sandstone Along The Greenbrier Fault And The Roundtop Klippe: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, Jonathan C. Lewis
Masters Theses
The Precambrian Thunderhead Sandstone, along the Greenbrier Fault and the Roundtop Klippe, records strain from two distinct episodes of deformation. The first strains are generally related to the emplacement of the Greenbrier Fault. These strains are probably due to simple shear along the base of the fault, and appear similar to the strain fabrics within in the Cades Sandstone to the southwest. This strain fabric is characterized by principle strain axes which lie subparallel to the orientation of the Greenbrier Fault. These strains were later effected by strains related to the emplacement of the Sinks Fault, a high angle thrust …