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  <dc:contributor>Bruce H. Bryant</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>John T. Hack</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>John C. Reed Jr.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1963</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Several&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;intermittent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ponds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and closed depressions as much as 200 feet wide occur on the crests of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ridges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;gently dipping Cambrian(?) quartzites&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the southeastern foothills of the Blue&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Ridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mountains near Morganton,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;North&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Carolina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;. The unconsolidated fill and debris&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ponds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;consists of clayey sand and saprolite with accessory minerals that could have been derived entirely from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;quartzite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;pond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;water contains appreciable quantities of dissolved silica and with the aid of organic substances could have formed the depressions by solution since the beginning of the Pleistocene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[1183:OOSIPO]2.0.CO;2</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Geological Society of America</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Origin of some intermittent ponds on quartzite ridges in western North Carolina</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>