Schooley peneplain
The Schooley peneplain is a peneplain in the eastern Appalachians extending from the US state of New Jersey into Pine Mountain in Kentucky.[1] The peneplain takes name from Schooley's Mountain where it can be appreciated as a flattish surface. The age of formation of the peneplain and its extent has been subject of a protracted debate. Some 20th century geologists and geographers considered that the peneplain dipped east under the Atlantic Plain as an unconformity underlying Cretaceous sediments.[2] Consequently, they posited an Early Cretaceous or Jurassic age.[2] Various authors, including Douglas Wilson Johnson, have however objected to the equivalence of the peneplain to the unconformity.[2] Since the 2000s an Oligocene to middle Miocene age has been proposed for it.[3] According to this last view the uplift and dissection of the peneplain started in the late Miocene.[3]
Schooley peneplain is one of the four main peneplains identified in the Appalachians, the other being Fall Zone, Harrisburg and Sommerville.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ McFarlan, Arthur C. (2008) [1943]. Chesnut, Don (ed.). "Geology of Kentucky: Outline of Geologic History". Kentucky Paleontological Society.
- ^ a b c Stose, George W. (1940). "Age of the Schooley peneplain". American Journal of Science. 238 (7).
- ^ a b Stanford, Scott D. The Schooley peneplain revisited: integrating geomorphology, stratigraphy, sea level, and tectonics
- ^ Sevon, William D.; Potter, Noel; Crowl, Gearge H. (1983). "Appalachian peneplains: An historical review". Earth Sciences History. 2 (2): 156–164. doi:10.17704/eshi.2.2.068421x54v1r7826.
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