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Cessation Of Grand Cycle Deposition In The Framework Of Passive Margin Evolution: Controlling Mechanisms And Effects On Carbonate Deposition And Diagenesis, Cambrian Maynardville Formation, Southern Appalachians, Bosiljka Glumac

Doctoral Dissertations

The Middle and Upper Cambrian deposits of the southern Appalachians reveal the existence of a broad carbonate platform that was facing the Iapetus Ocean to the east and was separated from the exposed craton to the west by the Conasauga intrashelf basin. This study focuses on the Maynardville Formation, which was deposited during the early Late Cambrian along the western carbonate platform margin. As the uppermost carbonate unit of the alternating shale and carbonate units or Grand Cycles of the Conasauga Group (Middle to Upper Cambrian), the Maynardville marks a change in style of passive-margin deposition reflected in the cessation …