Geology at every scale
Subtitle: field excursions for the 2018 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee
By: edited by Annette Summers Engel, Robert D. Hatcher, Jr
Series: Field guide -- 50; Field guide (Geological Society of America) -- 50
Publisher: The Geological Society of America
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780813700502
Subjects: Geology; Congresses; Guidebooks; Geomorphology
Description: "The chapters in this guidebook are organized according to major geologic themes, starting first with field trips in the Knoxville area that highlight, in some way, local carbonates, and then by ending with field trips focused on regional tectonics that include travel to North and South Carolina and Georgia"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Annette Summers Engel and Robert D. Hatcher Jr. -- 1.; title: Steaming through the Ordovician, Knoxville, Tennessee  -- C. Howard Capito, Stephanie Drumheller, and Robert D. Hatcher Jr. -- 2.; title: Lessons from limestone : how to teach all sciences with limestone  -- Michael A. Gibson and Don W. Byerly -- 3.; title: Karst hydrogeology of Tuckaleechee Cove and the western Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee and North Carolina  -- Benjamin V. Miller, Michael W. Bradley, and Teresa L. Brown -- 4.; title: Nutrient hotspots through time : a field guide to modern and fossil taphonomy in east Tennessee  -- Sarah W. Keenan, Christopher Widga, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, and Sean M. Schaeffer -- 5.; title: Revisiting the Flynn Creek impact structure, Jackson County, Tennessee  -- Steven J. Jaret and David T. King Jr. -- 6.; title: Quaternary faulting along the Dandridge-Vonore fault zone in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone  -- R.T. Cox, R.D. Hatcher Jr., R. Counts, E. Gamble, J. Glasbrenner, and K. Warrell -- 7.; title: Mesoscale faults, macroscale folds, and inferred basement structures, Nashville dome, central Tennessee  -- Mark Abolins, Rachel Bush, Amber Han, and Albert Ogden -- 8.; title: Evolution of the Blue Ridge basement complex in the eastern Great Smoky Mountains : evidence from zircon U-Pb geochronology and Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of basement gneisses  -- D.P. Moecher, E.D. Anderson, D.F. Loughry Jr., R.J. Quinn, E.A. Larkin, K.B. Walsh, S.D. Samson, A.M. Satkoski, and E. Tohver -- 9.; title: Blue-Ridge-Inner Piedmont geotraverse from the Great Smoky fault to the Inner Piedmont : upper crust to upper-lower crust, terranes, large faults, and sutures -- Arthur J. Merschat, Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., J. Ryan Thigpen, and Elizabeth A. McClellan.