A fission track transect across Nares Strait (Canada–Greenland): further evidence that the Wegener Fault is a myth

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Hansen, Kirsten, Dawes, Peter R., Frisch, Thomas, Jensen, Peter Klint
• Other Authors: Owen, Victor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2011
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Canada; Greenland; Nares; Smith Sound; Nares strait; Smith sound
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e10-103; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/e10-103; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e10-103

Many workers continue to model Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, Canada, as a plate boundary and locus of major Cenozoic compression and strike-slip, marked by the postulated Wegener (transform) Fault. This, despite continuity of Precambrian–Paleozoic provinces across the seaway i...