Stacked Crystalline Thrust Sheets and Episodes of Regional Metamorphism in Northeastern Georgia and Northwestern South Carolina

Résumé du livre

Parts of three major allochthonous terranes underlie the Greenville 1°x2° quadrangle, Georgia and South Carolina. From northwest to southeast, they are the eastern part of the Blue Ridge terrane, the Inner Piedmont, and the Charlotte terrane. The Brevard zone forms the tectonic boundary between the Blue Ridge terrane and the Inner Piedmont, and the Lowndesville shear zone forms the boundary between the Inner Piedmont and the Charlotte terrane. A total of eleven and possibly twelve westward-transported crystalline thrust sheets compose these terranes in the Greenville quadrangle. The Blue Ridge terrane Consists of a stack of five thrust sheets; the Inner Piedmont is underlain by four and possibly five thrust sheets, and two thrust sheets compose the Charlotte terrane.