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

Copperhill Formation in historic Ducktown, Tennessee
(35.0333 N, -84.3810 W)

Purpose: To examine garnet-zone Copperhill Formation schist and metasandstone.


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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