Redefinition of the Wild Bight Group, Newfoundland: implications for models of island-arc evolution in the Exploits Subzone

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: MacLachlan, Kate, O'Brien, Brian H, Dunning, Greg R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2001
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Saunders; Wild Bight; Seal Bay; Omega Point; Pennys Brook; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e01-006; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e01-006

The Wild Bight Group and correlative plutonic rocks of the South Lake Igneous Complex comprise one of the accreted, Ordovician, peri-Gondwanan, oceanic terranes of the Newfoundland Appalachians. Recent field work and isotopic ages from the eastern Wild Bight Group require that the stratigraphic sequ...