North Atlantic spreading axes terminate in the continental cul-de-sacs of Baffin Bay and the Laptev Sea
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 —...
Published in: | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |
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Canadian Science Publishing
2011
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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 |