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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830939303321

Autore

Fisher George W

Titolo

Petrology and Structure of Gneiss Anticlines near Baltimore, Maryland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 1989

ISBN

1-118-66873-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (12 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Field trip guidebook (International Geological Congress (28th : 1989 : Washington, D.C.)), T204 ; ; T208

Disciplina

552.4

Soggetti

Gneiss

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 204.  This field trip will focus on the petrology and structure of basement-cored anticlines in the central Appalachian Piedmont, near Baltimore, Maryland (Figure 1). These structures have long been interpreted as mantled gneiss domes in the sense of Eskola (1949). However, recent work suggests that they are recumbent nappes, arched by later folding about steeply dipping axial planes.