Post-Taconian shortening, inversion and strike slip in the Stephenville area, western Newfoundland Appalachians

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Palmer, Sarah E, Waldron, John W.F, Skilliter, D M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2002
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Indian; Blanche; Table Mountain; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-041; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e02-041

Deformed terrigenous and carbonate sedimentary rocks representing the early Paleozoic Laurentian continental margin form a series of elongate, fault-bounded blocks that plunge north beneath the Humber Arm Allochthon in the Stephenville area, west Newfoundland Appalachians. The continental shelf succ...