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Brevard Fault Zone in its extent from Montgomery, Alabama to the North-Carolina-Virginia border. The Brevard Fault Zone is a 700-km [1] long and several km-wide thrust fault that extends from the North Carolina-Virginia border, runs through the north metro Atlanta area, and ends near Montgomery, Alabama.
The first statewide geologic map of Georgia was published in 1825. It was a 1:1,000,000 scale map of Georgia and Alabama published by Henry Schenck Tanner. [3] In 1849 W.T. Williams published the geological features for the state on a 1:120,000 scale map within George White's (1849) Statistics of the State of Georgia report. [4]
The Piedmont is home to prominent features like Stone Mountain [5] and the Brevard fault zone, which runs parallel to the Chattahoochee River and bisects cities like Suwanee, Atlanta, Buford, and Duluth. The geological Piedmont includes metamorphic rocks of the Dadeville Complex, an Ordovican arc terrane that lay seaward of the North American ...
In Carroll County, where Acorn Creek flows into the path of the Chattahoochee river, the scar of the Brevard Fault is visible. [17] The fault is a geologic feature that spans several states. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] From Atlanta to eastern Alabama, an area which includes Acorn Creek, the rock units that characterize the fault outcrop in widths rarely ...
This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important [clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity. [clarification needed] It is not intended to list every notable fault, but only major fault zones.
Flowery Branch is within the Brevard Fault zone. [ 12 ] Natural resources in the Flowery Branch area include: gray marble , [ 13 ] [ 14 ] marble , clay , granite , graphite , limestone , iron ore , manganese , pegmatite , mica , beryl , quartzite , zircon , lead , copper , silver , and gold as known by the local Gold Hill Mine and regional ...
Globally most fault zones are located on divergent plate boundaries on oceanic crust. This means that they are located around mid-ocean ridges and trend perpendicular to them. The term fracture zone is used almost exclusively for features on oceanic crust; similar structures on continental crust are instead termed transform or strike slip faults.
Stratigraphy of Georgia (U.S. state) (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Geology of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.