Ultramafites, Melanges, and Stitching Granites as Suture Markers in the Central Piedmont of the Southern Appalachians
The Journal of Geology1988Vol. 96(6), pp. 693–707
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Abstract
New geological and limited geochemical data indicate that the Kings Mountain belt forms part of the exotic Carolina arc terrane. The Carolina terrane and the fundamentally different Piedmont terrane are juxtaposed along the Kings Mountain shear zone and its extensions to the northeast and southwest. Ultramafic-mafic (ophiolitic?) rock bodies, melanges, and syn- or post-kinematic granitic plutons are present in or near the Kings Mountain shear zone and support its identification as a terrane suture.
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