The Age and Nomenclature of the Rome ("Watauga") Formation of the Appalachian Valley

Woodward, Herbert P.

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“…The Rome formation was named for Rome, Ga. (Hayes, 1891, p. 143;Walcott, 1891, p. 304). This name is generally used in the southern Appalachians south of Roanoke, Va., for the dominantly red, argillaceous and sandy rocks of the upper part of the Lower Cambrian series, and has supplanted many local names that had come into use for the same unit (Woodward, 1929;Resser, 1938, p. 7-10). Keith, in his earlier work, failed to recognize the resemblance between the red shale along the southeast edge of the Appalachian Valley and the Rome formation that he mapped farther northwest; he referred to the shale as the "shore deposit of the Knox dolomite" (1892, 1895) on the mistaken assumption that the underlying Shady was equivalent to the much younger Knox.…”

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Geology of northeasternmost Tennessee, with a section on the description of the basement rocks

King¹,

Ferguson²,

Hamilton³

1960

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Previous work_________________________________ Present investigation.___________________________ Subdivisions of the basement rocks._______________ Basement rocks of the Mountain City window. _ Plutonic complex of Pardee Point and Buck Ridge _______________________________ Granitic rocks south of Pond and Little Pond Mountains____________________ Basement rocks of the Iron Mountains. _______ Basement rocks southeast of the Mountain City window.____________________________ General features and terminology._______ Complex of Lunsford Branch area______ Migmatite of Watauga River area______ Chloritized quartz diorite of Roan Creek area_ ______________________________ Character of the quartz diorite-_____ Pegmatite and granitic patches._____ Effects of shearing._________________ Gneisses of Forge Creek area. ___________ Amphibolite of Snake and Rich Mountains-Interpretation of structures of the basement rocks. _ General features.___________________________ Structures of Precambrian age______________ Structures probably of early or middle Paleozoic age._________ _________-__.__-_-__.___ Structures of late Paleozoic age. _____________ Faults and mylonite_____.______________ Folds..._______________________________ Cleavage and other small-scale structures __ Mineral alteration______________________ Stratified rocks._-___-____--_-______-_--_-_---______ General character of rock formations.____-___..___ Precambrian rocks._-_-_-__-__-________-____-___ Mount Rogers volcanic group (Upper Precambrian) _______________________________ Volcanic rocks________________________ Sedimentary rocks ______________________ Thickness and stratigraphic relations______ Age.

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