Makanda Anticline (Discarded)

Location

Southeastern Jackson and southwestern Williamson Counties

References

St. Clair 1917a, Lamar 1925

Description

Using data from an outcrop study, St. Clair (1917a) mapped a fold near the village of Makanda and named it the Makanda Anticline. St. Clair indicated the anticlinal axis to be about 8 miles (13 km) long and trending slightly north of east. Remapping of the area by Lamar (1925) and Jacobson and Weibel (1993) showed that this structure does not exist. The Pennsylvanian sandstones that crop out near Makanda commonly exhibit irregular dips due to loading, differential compaction, and other nontectonic causes. Use of the name Makanda Anticline should be discarded.