Northeastern extension and crustal expression of terranes from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, based on geophysical data

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Loncarevic, B. D., Barr, S. M., Raeside, R. P., Keen, C. E., Marillier, F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1989
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Canada; Breton Island; Blair; Cabot; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e89-192; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e89-192

The narrowest section of the Appalachian Orogen in Atlantic Canada (from Grenville-age basement in the west to the Avalon Terrane in the east) is preserved in Cape Breton Island, where components of four terranes display distinctive stratigraphic, igneous, metamorphic, aeromagnetic, and gravity char...