Bay of Islands and Little Port complexes, revisited: age, geochemical and isotopic evidence confirm suprasubduction-zone origin
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...
Published in: | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
1991
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-146 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e91-146 |