North Atlantic spreading axes terminate in the continental cul-de-sacs of Baffin Bay and the Laptev Sea

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Pulvertaft, T. Christopher R., Dawes, Peter R.
• Other Authors: Murphy, Brendan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2011
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Laptev Sea; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Nares; Gakkel Ridge; Baffin; laptev; Nares strait; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e11-004; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/E11-004; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/E11-004

In conventional plate-tectonic models, an independent Greenland plate is supposed to have drifted in the Paleogene along a transform fault through Nares Strait that links the two branches of the North Atlantic spreading system. However, this postulated structure — widely known as the Wegener Fault —...