The Mings Bight Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland: Appalachian oceanic crust and mantle

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Kidd, W. S. F., Dewey, John F., Bird, John M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Verte; Baie Verte; Big Head; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e78-084; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e78-084

The Mings Bight Ophiolite Complex, of probable early Ordovician age, is disposed in four major thrust sheets with an eastward vergence at the northern end of the Baie Verte Lineament. This narrow ophiolitic belt, and (to the south) an adjacent zone of early Devonian volcanic rocks and sediments, wer...