Detachment folds and triangle zones: Unexplored hydrocarbon potential along eastern Cumberland escarpment, Tenn.

An 80 km-long unexplored subsurface detachment fold, the Eureka Structure, exists in the southern Appalachian thrust belt just east of the Cumberland escarpment in eastern Tennessee.
July 21, 2003

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An 80 km-long unexplored subsurface detachment fold, the Eureka Structure, exists in the southern Appalachian thrust belt just east of the Cumberland escarpment in eastern Tennessee.

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