EAST TENNESSEE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
| Lower Pennsylvanian Geology and Shallow Brittle |
| Deformation in the Wartburg Area - STOP 4b |
| Wartburg, Tennessee Saturday, May 09, 2015 |
| Trip Leader: Vade Scruggs Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee |
Click the links below to see photographs at each of the field trip stops.
| Stop 1 | Lilly Bluff Overlook |
| Stop 2 | Exposed Sandstone-Shale Contact on Highway 62 near Lancing |
| Stop 3 | Exposed Rex Coal at Fritts Road |
| Stop 4a | Emory River Tear Fault near Nemo Rapids |
| Stop 4b | Emory River Tear Fault Dividing Sandstone Units |
| Stop 4c | Deformed Shale in Rock Castle Sandstone Caused by Fault |
Two different sandstone units (Newton and Rock Castle) separated by Emory River tear fault. |
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Cataclastic sandstone with slickensides
(Newton sandstone) |
Cataclastic sandstone with slickensides
(Newton sandstone) |
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Emory River tear fault dividing sandstone
units; Rock Castle left and Newton right |
Rock Castle sandstone left and Newton
sandstone foreground |
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May 19, 2018 |