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The Sedimentology And Stratigraphy Of The Chilhowee Group (Uppermost Proterozoic To Lower Cambrian) Of Eastern Tennessee And Western North Carolina: The Evolution Of The Laurentian - Iapetos Margin, James Daniel Walker

Doctoral Dissertations

The Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces of the southern Appalachians possess Upper Proterozoic and Lower Paleozoic age sedimentary, metasedimentary, volcanic, and metavolcanic rock thought to represent sedimentation and igneous activity related to the formation of the Iapetos (Proto-Atlantic) ocean. These sequences of strata can be related to the development of the Laurentian - Iapetos margin as seen in the Southern Appalachians. "Rift" phase sequences of the western Blue Ridge, include the Late Proterozoic age Mount Rogers, Catoctin, Grandfather Mountain formations, and the Ocoee Supergroup, which have been interpreted by other workers as representing volcanism and sedimentation in regionally discontinuous, fault-bounded …