Review of crustal architecture and evolution in the Ungava Peninsula — Baffin Island area: connection to the Lithoprobe ECSOOT transect

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: St-Onge, M R, Scott, D J, Wodicka, N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2002
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Baffin; Hudson Strait; Ungava Bay; Ungava peninsula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-022; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e02-022

Within the Trans-Hudson Orogen in northern Quebec and southern Baffin Island, parautochthonous Archean basement and Paleoproterozoic cover, as well as allochthonous (accreted) Paleoproterozoic units, are exposed in a series of antiformal culminations and complementary synclinoria. The parautochthono...