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Research Article| January 01, 1981 Shear zone between the Inner Piedmont and Kings Mountain belts in the Carolinas J. Wright Horton, Jr. J. Wright Horton, Jr. 1U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 22092 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Geology (1981) 9 (1): 28–33. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1981)9<28:SZBTIP>2.0.CO;2 Article history first online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation J. Wright Horton; Shear zone between the Inner Piedmont and Kings Mountain belts in the Carolinas. Geology 1981;; 9 (1): 28–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1981)9<28:SZBTIP>2.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract The Kings Mountain shear zone, which marks the boundary between the Inner Piedmont and Kings Mountain belts near the North Carolina–South Carolina state line, is a northeast-striking, steeply to moderately dipping zone of ductile mylonitic deformation and late-stage semibrittle deformation. The zone is at least 60 km long and is no more than a few hundred metres wide. It truncates rock units of both belts. The juxtaposition of two lithologically different terranes suggests that displacement may be considerable, probably on the order of kilometres. Inconclusive evidence suggests that the northwest (Inner Piedmont) side is upthrown. The Kings Mountain zone is one of several in the southern Appalachian Piedmont that were active during a Middle to Late Devonian (Acadian?) deformational event, and it may be part of a regional fault system extending from Alabama to Virginia. The Kings Mountain, Lowndesville, and Towaliga zones may be a single zone more than 550 km long. This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.
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