Bay of Islands and Little Port complexes, revisited: age, geochemical and isotopic evidence confirm suprasubduction-zone origin

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Jenner, G. A., Dunning, G. R., Malpas, J., Brown, M., Brace, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1991
• Subjects: Skinner Cove; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-146; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e91-146

The Bay of Islands Complex of the Humber Arm allochthon, west Newfoundland, contains the best-exposed ophiolite in the Appalachian Orogen. Associated structural slices, the Little Port and Skinner Cove complexes, also contain rocks formed in an oceanic domain, although their relationship to the Bay...