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Geological Survey Bulletin 587
Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover: VIEW OF MOUNT LE CONTE EASTWARD ACROSS VALLEY OF WEST PRONG OF LITTLE PIGEON RIVER FROM SUGARLAND MOUNTAINBasement complex
View encompasses most of the formations of the Great Smoky Group of the Ocoee Series and much of its thickness as well. The ledges and cliffs are Thunderhead Sandstone, here about 7,000 feet thick; beneath them at the base of slope on the left, the Elkmont Sandstone emerges; the Anakeesta Formation caps Mount Le Conte (the background peak right of center of view) and forms the jagged peaks of The Chimneys at the right. Drawing by Philip B. King.
Ocoee Series
Snowbird Group
Great Smoky Group
Unclassified formations of Ocoee Series
Walden Creek Group
Interpretation of Ocoee Series
Paleozoic rocks
Igneous rocks
Greenbrier and related faults
Great Smoky and related faults
Gatlinburg and related faults
Folding
Summary of deformational history
Noteworthy exposures in the area
ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE
1. Geologic map and structure sections (omitted from the online edition)FIGURE
1. View from Cliff Top on Mount Le Conte
2. Little River gap
3. View of Cades Cove
4. The Great Smoky fault and related structures
5. Geologic features at The Sinks
6. Geologic features visible from Maloney Point
7. Geologic features at Chimneys Overlook
TABLES
TABLE
1. Stratigraphic units of the Ocoee Series of the Great Smoky Mountains
2. Paleozoic formations in the vicinity of the Great Smoky Mountains
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
William T. Pecora, Director
Library of Congress catalog-card No. G8 67-301
First printing 1968
Second printing 1968
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