TECTONIC CONTROLS ON LOWER DEVONIAN SANDSTONE DISTRIBUTION, ALABAMA

TECTONIC CONTROLS ON LOWER DEVONIAN SANDSTONE DISTRIBUTION, ALABAMA

The Devonian Frog Mountain Formation thickens abruptly eastward across the Eastern Coosa thrust fault from <12 m on the west to>70 m on the east. The thin Frog Mountain on the west unconformably overlies the Cambrian-Ordovician Knox Group. The thin Frog Mountain (mostly shale) is overlain by t...

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Main Author: Solis, Michael P.
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2010
Subjects:
Lower Devonian Frog Mountain Formation
Eastern Coosa thrust sheet
out-of-the-syncline thrust
Blountian peripheral foreland bulge
Alabama
Geology
Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/13
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&amp;context=gradschool_theses

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