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Defining The Hayesville–Soque River And Allatoona Faults And An Ordovician Arc Assemblage Within The Central Blue Ridge Northwest Of Dahlonega, Georgia, David Jonathan Settles

Masters Theses

The goal of this research within the central Blue Ridge northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia, is to provide new information toward better understanding of the Allatoona(?)/ Hayesville/Gossan Lead fault and terrane boundary, and to provide convincing evidence of Ordovician arc-related igneous activity. The Hayesville-Soque River and Allatoona faults separate three distinct tectonostratigraphic assemblages in this area: the Coweeta Group, Great Smoky Group, and Dahlonega gold belt. The gold belt here contains metasandstone, pelitic schist, and mafic rocks of the Otto Formation and the Sally Free mafic complex, while the Great Smoky Group contains metasandstone and pelitic schist with abundant calc-silicate. The …