Tempestite frequency curves: a key to Late Ordovician and Early Silurian subsidence, sea-level change, and orbital forcing in the Anticosti foreland basin, Quebec, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Long, D GF
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2007
• Subjects: Canada; Jupiter; Vauréal; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e06-099; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e06-099

Following partial closure of the northern Iapetus Ocean along the Newfoundland segment of the St. Lawrence Promontory, subsidence along the Anticosti Platform was influenced by residual thermal subsidence, renewed tectonic loading by thrust sheets to the south, and sediment loading. Basement subside...