Implications of thermal events on thrust emplacement sequence in the Appalachian fold and thrust belt: some new vitrinite reflectance data

S. E. Lewis, J. C. Hower

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Abstract

Interpretation of existing geothermometry data combined with new vitrinite reflectance data, within the framework of a detailed composite tectonic setting, elucidates the evolution of structural sequencing of thrust sheets during the Alleghanian event in the Valley and Ridge Province in Virginia. Warm fluids introduced during tectonic events may have played at least as important a role as that of combined stratigraphic and tectonic burial. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)927-942
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Geology
Volume98
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1990

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geology

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