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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Melvin V. Marcher</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Richard G. Stearns</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1962</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;During early&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Late&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Cretaceous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;northern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Mississippi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Embayment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;was occupied by a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;structural&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and topographic dome standing nearly 1000 feet above sea level. Rocks as old as Cambrian were exposed on its crest. Downwarping of the dome, which commenced in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Late&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Cretaceous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;time, resulted in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Mississippi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Embayment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;syncline, now filled with sediments of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Cretaceous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, Paleocene, and Eocene age. The flanks of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Mississippi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Embayment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;syncline slope uniformly about 30 feet per mile. Most of the bending occurred near the synclinal axis, which generally follows the present course of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Mississippi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;River. Faults cutting the Paleozoic basement and, in some areas, extending upward into the overlying younger rocks resulted from superposition of the narrow synclinal bend across the now-buried&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;structural&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;high. Adjustment also probably occurred by faulting of Paleozoic rocks along the Tennessee River, where the eastern flank of the syncline was bent downward. As a result of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;structural&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;movements during the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Cretaceous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and later periods, the old dome has been depressed beneath the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Mississippi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Embayment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and now forms the Pascola arch connecting the Ozark and Nashville domes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1130/0016-7606(1962)73[1387:LCASSD]2.0.CO;2</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Geological Society of America</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Late cretaceous and subsequent structural development of the northern Mississippi Embayment area</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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