Title page for ETD etd-10312009-020040

Type of Document

Thesis

Author

Whiting, Stephen E.

Author's Email Address

sew03f@fsu.edu

URN

etd-10312009-020040

Title

Geology of the Talladega Slate Belt and Foreland Fold-and-Thrust belt, Talladega County, Alabama.

Degree

Master of Science

Department

Geological Sciences, Department

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
James F. Tull	Committee Chair
Stephen Kish	Committee Member
Vincent J.M. Salters	Committee Member

Keywords

Structural Geology
Petrography
Wash Creek Slate
Sylacauga Marble Group
Talladega Slate Belt
Stratigraphy

Date of Defense

2009-09-11

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

The Talladega-Cartersville fault emplaces the rocks of the Talladega metamorphic belt upon the unmetamorphosed rocks of the foreland fold-and-thrust belt. The Talladega slate belt is composed of lower-greenschist facies meta-sedimentary and meta-volcanic rocks which are poly-deformed yet have undergone only one metamorphic event. The stratigraphy located in Talladega County within the Talladega slate belt include the Kahatchee Mountain Group, the Sylacauga Marble Group and Talladega Group which are interpreted in this study as representing a change is deposition from clastic shallow marine, to stable carbonate bank, to a deep marine basin following the collapse of the carbonate shelf. The Talladega slate belt in this study is interpreted as being a distal continuation of the units exposed within the foreland thrust belt. Lithologic and petrographic study indicates that the sandstones within the Sleeping Giants klippe are more suited to the metamorphic belt stratigraphy than the Chilhowee stratigraphy in the foreland. This renders the Sleeping Giants klippe an isolated part of the Talladega slate belt. Four fold phases are detailed, the oldest of which, is the only one to have occurred before the metamorphic event. The metamorphic event is believed to have occurred during the Alleghenian orogeny during which deep burial (~12 km) gave the rocks of the metamorphic belt their low-grade metamorphic signature.

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