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Science 12 August 1983:
Vol. 221. no. 4611, pp. 649 - 651
DOI: 10.1126/science.221.4611.649
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Confirmation of the Carolina Slate Belt as an Exotic Terrane

DONALD T. SECOR JR. 1, SARA L. SAMSON 1, ARTHUR W. SNOKE 1, and ALLISON R. PALMER 2

1 Department of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
2 Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado 80301

An assemblage of Middle Cambrian Atlantic faunal province trilobites has been found in the rocks of the Carolina slate belt near Batesburg, South Carolina. Geologic and paleomagnetic data suggest that the Carolina slate belt and the adjacent Charlotte belt constitute an exotic terrane that was accreted to North America in early to middle Paleozoic time.

Submitted on March 7, 1983
Revised on May 18, 1983


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