The Brevard Fault Zone is a 700-km long and several km-wide thrust fault that extends from the North Carolina-Virginia border, runs through the north metro...
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Talladega-Cartersville-Great Smoky fault. The geologic Blue Ridge is separated from the geologic Piedmont by the Brevard fault zone. The Fall Line, the surface...
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(16.4 km2) is land and 0.40% is water. Flowery Branch is within the Brevard Fault zone. Natural resources in the Flowery Branch area include: gray marble...
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Metro Atlanta (section Earthquakes and fault lines)
created by the decomposition of leaf litter. An extinct fault line called the Brevard Fault runs roughly parallel to the Chattahoochee River, but as...
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runs through the center of the city. Greenville is located in the Brevard Fault Zone and has had occasional minor earthquakes. Greenville, like much...
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segment of the river. Much of that segment of the river runs through the Brevard fault zone. The current course of the Chattahoochee River has a geologic history...
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The cause of the Newry quake was likely a slippage of the Brevard Fault and other faults in the area, aided by the immense weight of the man-made Lake...
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into the path of the Chattahoochee river, the scar of the Brevard Fault is visible. The fault is a geologic feature that spans several states. From Atlanta...
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High Shoals Granite, introduced strike-slip faulting from the Brevard fault southeast to the Piedmont fault zone and produced the thrust sheets of the...
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H., 1973, The western Georgia Piedmont between the Cartersville and Brevard fault zones, American Journal of Science, 273:712-722. Croft, M.G, 1964, Geology...
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