Tennessee Geology( was: Re: [Geology2] An Accurate Way of Predicting Landslides)

Tennessee has lots of nice geological sites, as might be expected from such a long state.  Back in the mid-70s I visited the famous deposit of Cretaceous fossils (Coon Creek?  I forget the name) and also the Silurian glades with the famous sponges, near Waynesboro, as I remember..  Much more recently, near Jamestown, I saw a roadcut that was essentially a reef of Lithostrotionella (sp?), the Mississippian colonial coral.  Also, I have memories of traveling up I-65 from Alabama and stopping at exits to collect from exposures of Ordovician limestones - all sorts of bryozoans, brachiopods, etc.  And of course that barely scratches the surface!

 

Kenneth Quinn

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