EAST TENNESSEE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Traverse from the Upper Crust to the Lower Middle Crust of the Taconian Orogen (470-440Ma)
Southern Appalachians
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Trip Leader:
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher Jr.

ETGS Attendees

Ocoee Dam No.1 (Parksville Reservoir)
(35.0964
N, -84.6478 W)

Purpose: To examine a brittlely deformed, very low metamorphic grade Hesse (Chilhowee Group) sandstone block caught up by the fault and the structures within it.


Click the links below to see photographs at each of the field trip stops. 

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Stop 1-1 Ocoee Dam No.1 (Parksville Reservoir)
(35.0964 N, -84.6478 W)
Stop 1-2 Cleavage and Primary Sedimentary Structures in Wilhite Formation (Walden Creek Group) at Madden Branch
(35.1096 N, -84.5590 W)
Stop 1-3 Wehutty Formation at Boyd Gap
(35.0432 N, -84.4502 W)
Stop 1-4 Copperhill Formation in historic Ducktown, Tennessee
(35.0333 N, -84.3810 W)
Stop 1-5 Mineral Bluff Formation along U.S. 64 in Murphy, North Carolina
(35.078503 N, -84.040160 W)
Stop 1-6 Staurolite-Bearing Mineral Bluff Formation South of Marble, North Carolina
(35.1683 N, -83.9213 W)
Stop 1-7 Migmatitic Metagraywacke (Great Smoky Group) East of Hayesville, North Carolina
(35.0406 N, -83.7947 W)
Stop 1-9A Chunky Gal Mountain
(35.0588 N, -83.6203 W)
Stop 1-10 Metadunite of the Buck Creek Complex along Buck Creek
(35.07850 N, -84.62805 W)
Stop 1-11 Winding Stair Gap
(35.1224 N, -83.5435 W)

All photos by Bob Gelinas unless otherwise specified. 

 

   
   
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