Roadside Geology of Tennessee

Marcy B. Davis "Davis’s Roadside Geology of Tennessee provides a wealth of well-organized geologic information on the state."—M.E. McCallum, Choice "As Impressively informed as it is accessibly organized and presented, Roadside Geology of Tennessee is unreservedly recommended for personal professional, community college, and university library American Geology collections and supplemental curriculum studies reading lists."—James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review Tennessee, extending 500 diagonal miles between Bristol and Memphis, cuts across numerous rock types, from the deformed gneiss of the Blue Ridge along the North Carolina border to the young sediments exposed in the Chickasaw Bluffs that rise 100 feet above the Mississippi River floodplain. The state’s more than 1 billion years of geologic history includes continental collisions that built enormous mountains and rifting forces that almost split the ancient continent apart. The geologic processes are still at work in Tennessee, with si