Tectonic significance of the Carboniferous Big Pond Basin, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Bradley, Dwight C., Bradley, Lauren M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1986
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Breton Island; Big Pond; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e86-185; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e86-185

Detailed mapping in southeastern Cape Breton Island has revealed a strike-slip origin for the small Carboniferous outlier at Big Pond. Topographically low Carboniferous sedimentary rocks occur between splays of a previously unrecognized, northeast-trending set of high-angle faults, the Big Pond faul...