153 Geology Field Trip to Sequatchie Valley
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Sequatchie Valley is a deeply eroded valley on the Cumberland Plateau. Despite alternative ideas about its nature – a rift valley like the East African rift valleys – the valley follows a breached part of the Sequatchie anticline from just south of Crossville to near the Coastal Plain overlap in Alabama. While the scenery is great anytime, we will emphasize the bedrock geological history of the valley with a look at its surficial history.
Robert D. (Bob) Hatcher
Bob Hatcher is an Oak Ridge resident of some 40 years. He is a field scientist with his primary goal to unravel the tectonic history of the interiors of mountain chains. While he and graduate students have worked primarily in the Appalachian Mountains, he has spent many weeks in the field studying the internal makeup and tectonic history of other chains in Europe, South America, Siberia, and western North America.