Geology of Tennessee

banks belt Black Shale Bluff calcareous Carboniferous Central Basin character Chattanooga chert Chilhowee clay Clinch Coal Measures Cocke County Conglomerate contains copper County Cove Creek crinoidal Cumberland Table-land division Dolomite Ducktown Dyestone Group East Tennessee eastern elevation extends feet thick Fork fossiliferous fossils geological gravel gray Hardin County Highlands Holston iron Knox Dolomite Knoxville layers less lignite lime localities lower Maclurea Main Sewanee marble masses mentioned metamorphic Middle Tennessee miles mineral Mississippi Mountain Limestone Nashville nearly northwest occur Ocoee Orthis outcrop plateau points portion Powell's present pyrites Railroad range referred region runs Safford sand sandstone Sandy Shale seen Sequatchee Valley side Siliceous Siliceous Group slates slope soil southeast southern species specimens strata Summit surface Tenn Tennessee River thin tion Tracy City Trenton Trenton and Nashville Unaka Range upper veins western