North Carolina Fault Line?

Question

I was listening to the radio the other day and the host mentioned something about North Carolina lying on a fault line. I was wondering if anybody knew the name of this fault line and a website for more information about it

Answer 1

There are tons of fault (major and minor) in the Southeast US. A large, much studied fault in North Carolina is the Hayesville-Fries fault.

This is a fantastic paper by one of my former instructors and one of the premier Appalachian geologists of our time.

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ea.15.050187.002005?cookieSet=1