Full Title: The Mid-Atlantic Piedmont: Tectonic Missing Link of the Appalachians
Editors: David W. Valentino and Alexander E. Gates
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GSA and others have published many topical special volumes on northern and southern Appalachian tectonics. As critical advances in plate tectonics were applied to the rest of the Appalachians however, the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont was commonly neglected or included as an afterthought, making this part of the orogen a "missing link." Valentino and Gates have assembled a collection of papers that tie the central Appalachian Piedmont to the northern and southern regions by filling this void. Major themes include the impact of late Paleozoic dextral transpressive tectonism, the continuation of the Piedmont under the Atlantic coastal plain, and new results in the tectonothermal history of the Piedmont.
Published: 3/19/1999
ISBN Number: 0813723302
Pages: 139
Product Category: Special Papers