CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
7 United States (Tennessee) 36.11.49 N -- 085.56.35 W Central Tennessee District Zn; Pb; Cd
 
Database name: World Mississippi Valley-type deposits
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: D. F. Sangster
Release date: 2015-02-06
   
Deposit group name(s): Central Tennessee District
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Tennessee; Subprovince or locality: Central Tennessee
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Geologic province: Appalachian Basin
Geologic subprovince: Cincinnati Arch
Geologic district: Nashville Dome
Deposit object located: centroid of district
Commodities: Zn; Pb; Cd
Geological ages: Late Cambrian - Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Mississippian (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal platform (host rocks)
Coincident features: collapse breccia (dissolution collapse breccia)
caverns
paleoaquifers (karst)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Host rock stratigraphy:Knox Group
Host rock name(s): Knox Group
References:
Briskey, J. A.; Dingess, P. R.; Smith, F.; Gilbert, R. C.; Armstrong, A. K.; Cole, G. P., 1986
Localization and Source of Mississippi Valley-type Zinc Deposits in Tennessee, USA, and Comparisons with Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Ireland
in Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland, Edited by Andrew, C. J.; Crowe, R. W. A.; Finlay, S.; Pennell, W. M.; Pyne, J. F., Irish Association for Economic Geology, Cahill Printers, Ireland, 711 p, p. 635 - 661

Associated deposit(s): Central Tennessee District (18)

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