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177   over-   col-   be   fore-   beneath   belt);   and   rift-   al.,   et   con-   base-   belt,   Dame   Green   Ouachita   and   the   of   separating   décolle-   distance   6.37d).   Indian   High   of   zone   reflec-   1981;   the   Paleozoic   the   Flexural  normal  faults   E.  Schweig,  III,   permission  of   faults  of  by  thrust   fold-and-thrust  belt   Mountain   of  the   1.5 s   to   Ae   oe   141-170,   passive  continental  margin.

         the   a   of   may   Ridge   reflections   to   due   (Harris   that   orogenic   the   Waco   6.38).   a   Fig.   the   and   a   1979;   mark   beneath   with   Pine   permission   of  Precambrian crystalline   :  underthrusted  shelf  strata,
     Settings   within   front   margin   Appalachian   km   100   fold-and-thrust   Blue   as   suggest   underthrusting   Notré   1986),   the   in   the   and   profiles   (Fig.   zone   suggest   considerable   see   of   top   Lesser   involves   Dipping   al.,   to   late   the   zones   and   1990.  Redrawn   faults  are  overridden   foreland   with  the  northwest,  cuts  downsection   Omae ems  , vol. LO, pp.  southeast.  Southeastward  dipping  reflections  beneath  shelf

     of  Tectonic   structures   deformation   continental   southern   than   more   (foreland   of  the   rocks   wedge-shaped   interpreted   margin  passive   profiles   the   of  Appalachian/Ouachita   the  including   al.,   et   Uplift   1983),   seismic   1975);   Massif   Aar   dipping   profiles   for   1979;   al.,   et   the   near   the   of   continents   6.36a).   (Fig.   et   (Cook   interpreted   been   in  America   suture   foreland  basin  deposit.  b)   R.  VanAr



     Expression   of  variety   the   Near   the   from   the   In   for   extend   Province   crystalline   Dipping,   are   strata,   Cambrian   reflection   top   the   Stewart   1983;   Benton   the   al.,   et   Lillie   Rozendal,  basement-cored,   gently   a   is   reflection   extends   (Cook   zone  décollement   rocks   of   rocks   Georgia   have   North   mark   to   United  States,  From   vol.  74,  pp.   flexural   Ridge   ©  100,  pp.  72-99,  basal  décollement,  at



     Seismic   great   a   1966).   Structures   structures   6.35b,c).   strata   Ridge   1981).   shelf   Seismic   when   the   structures,   al.,   et   1983),   1982;   al.,   and   the   décollement   Seismic   Mountains   rocks   the   crystalline   suturing   The   crystalline   in   1985)   al.,   et   to  continent   interpreted   Bulletin,   from  the  Valley  and   vol.   Cc.   on


         reveal   al.,   et   and   and   (Fig.   shelf   and   farttier,  beneath   1979,   al.,   the   Proterozoic/Early   1991).   al.,   ‘   Structures   deformed   Along  depth.   basement-cored   Julien   al.,   et   et   (Nicholas   of  nature   A   materials.   crystalline   that   beneath   and   strata   Appalachians   Nelson   are   younger  molasse  is  a  superimposed   the  southern   Mountains.  From  Three-dimensional  geometry  and   Bulletin,   the  décollement  on
         profiles   Bally   (see   Strata   strata   rocks   that   show   Valley   the   even   et   beneath   Late.   et  Hubbard   be   to   begins   km   15   (St.  Quebec   (Ando   (Nelson   Texas   in   antiformal   Décollement   underthrust   Appalachian   beneath   suggest   completely   Reflections   southern   1982;   African   the   reflections   in   Basin   Basin,  AAPG   Interpreted,  migrated  time  section   Mitra,  GSA   beneath   of  the  American  northwest,  2.6 s


          Reflection   of  strata   Underthrusted   range,  mountain   overthrust   data   of   rocks   extend   (Cook  Piedmont   completely   the   from   1984;   Basement  Involved   basement   to   10   large,   in   Vermont   in   Arkansas   of   uplifts   the   Thrust   from   southern   the   km)   100   from  Tibet   extends  6.39).   (Fig.   Zone   Suture   of  sedimentary   the  beneath   Smithson,   and   of  suturing   Similar   Miocene  and   from  the  Arkoma  the  Amer



          hinterland.   wedge   thrust   4.   lisional   beneath   intact   reflection   land,   sedimentary   shelf  strata   the   Inner   6.374),   (Fig.   fill  graben   Lillie,   1981;  ?   5.   tinental   reaches   ment   reveal   lines   Anticlinorium   Mountains   Mountains   River  Devils   reveal   Alps   6.   overthrust   in   ment   than   (more   data  Recent   craton   Himalaya   7.   deformation   tions   Iverson   of   zone   6.36b).   (Fig.   (continued)   time  sect




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