2023
DOI: 10.1144/sp542-2022-359
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Structural inheritance in Carolinia, external to the excised Rheic Suture: Savannah River Site, South Carolina, USA.

Abstract: Phanerozoic reactivations of basement fault zones are documented in 5000m of basement core recovered from beneath the updip Atlantic Coastal Plain underlying the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Site. These basement fault zones are adjacent to the excised Rheic Ocean suture. C. 619 and 624 Ma metaintrusive rocks contain a mylonitic fabric and intrude foliated mafic metavolcanic rocks. At c. 305 Ma, granulite facies orthogneisses were thrust over amphibolite facies metaigneous rocks in the transpressive… Show more

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