Palinspastic Restoration Suggesting Late Paleozoic North Atlantic Rifting

Palinspastic restoration of sinistral wrench faults in Britain and of dextral wrenches in Canada, starting with the palinspastic pre-continental-drift map, implies the possibility of as much as 424 kilometers of rifting between Newfoundland and Ireland. The wrench-faulting and postulated resultant r...

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Published in:Science
Main Author: Webb, Gregory W.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1968
Subjects:
Canada
Newfoundland
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.159.3817.875
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.159.3817.875
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Summary:Palinspastic restoration of sinistral wrench faults in Britain and of dextral wrenches in Canada, starting with the palinspastic pre-continental-drift map, implies the possibility of as much as 424 kilometers of rifting between Newfoundland and Ireland. The wrench-faulting and postulated resultant rifting are of Devonian and Carboniferous age.

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