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Table of Contents - Field Guide 29

From the Blue Ridge to the Coastal Plain: Field Excursions in the Southeastern United States

Edited by Martha Cary Eppes and Mervin J. Bartholomew

Foreword		v
1.	Igneous activity, metamorphism, and deformation in the Mount Rogers area of SW Virginia and NW North Carolina: A geologic record of Precambrian tectonic evolution of the southern Blue Ridge Province Richard P. Tollo, John N. Aleinikoff, Roland Mundil, C. Scott Southworth, Michael A. Cosca, Douglas W. Rankin, Allison E. Rubin, Adrienne E. Kentner, Christopher A. Parendo, and Molly S. Ray	1
2.	Bluff to bluff: A field guide to floodplain geology and geomorphology of the Lower Congaree River Valley, South Carolina David C. Shelley, Scott Werts, Doug Dvoracek, and William Armstrong	67
3.	Historic mill ponds and piedmont stream water quality: Making the connection near Raleigh, North Carolina Karl W. Wegmann, Robert Q. Lewis, and Michael C. Hunt	93
4.	New Madrid Seismic Zone field trip guide Roy B. Van Arsdale, Heather R. DeShon, and Matitia P. Tuttle	123
5.	The Great 1886 Earthquake: Seismic hazard and visible damage from the most damaging earthquake in the United States in the 1800s Pradeep Talwani, Erin K. Beutel, Norman Levine, Ken Aalto, Steve Jaume, and Madelyne Adams	137
6.	The Neoacadian orogenic core of the southern Appalachians: A geo-traverse through the migmatitic Inner Piedmont from the Brushy Mountains to Lincolnton, North Carolina Arthur J. Merschat, Robert D. Hatcher Jr., Heather E. Byars, and William G. Gilliam	171
7.	Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic petrologic and ductile-brittle structural relationships along the Alleghanian Nutbush Creek fault zone and Deep River Triassic basin in North Carolina David E. Blake, Edward F. Stoddard, Philip J. Bradley, and Timothy W. Clark	219
8.	Overview of the stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Talladega slate belt, Alabama Appalachians James F. Tull and Clinton I. Barineau	263
9.	Geology of the Ediacaran–Middle Cambrian rocks of western Carolinia in South Carolina Allen J. Dennis, John W. Shervais, and Dennis LaPoint	303
10.	Traversing suspect terranes in the central Virginia Piedmont: From Proterozoic anorthosites to modern earthquakes Christopher M. Bailey and Brent E. Owens	327
11.	The Early-Middle Mississippian Borden–Grainger–Fort Payne delta/basin complex: Field evidence for delta sedimentation, basin starvation, mud-mound genesis, and tectonism during the Neoacadian Orogeny Frank R. Ettensohn, R. Thomas Lierman, Devi B.P. Udgata, and Charles E. Mason	345