Reading the stripes: offshore discoveries in plate tectonics with examples from eastern Canada
The emergence and wide acceptance of plate tectonics has had a profound influence on the way we look at the Earth. Starting as a theory to explain similarities in coast lines across the Atlantic, plate tectonics has become a unifying theory in the earth sciences. In this paper, we describe the role...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/e93-022 2023-12-17T10:44:54+01:00 Reading the stripes: offshore discoveries in plate tectonics with examples from eastern Canada Verhoef, Jacob Roest, Walter R. 1993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e93-022 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e93-022 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences volume 30, issue 2, page 261-277 ISSN 0008-4077 1480-3313 General Earth and Planetary Sciences journal-article 1993 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/e93-022 2023-11-19T13:38:46Z The emergence and wide acceptance of plate tectonics has had a profound influence on the way we look at the Earth. Starting as a theory to explain similarities in coast lines across the Atlantic, plate tectonics has become a unifying theory in the earth sciences. In this paper, we describe the role of staff of the Geological Survey of Canada in the developing and refining of this theory. At the same time, we illustrate the effect plate tectonics has had on our understanding of the evolution of offshore eastern Canada. Of critical importance in this development was the unique data set collected by systematic surveying of this region, largely by the Geological Survey of Canada, making the Grand Banks of Newfoundland one of the best-studied offshore areas in the world. Plate tectonic theory not only offers a framework for the evolution of ocean basins, continental margins, and their sedimentary basins, but also for the assemblage of continents. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Canada Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30 2 261 277 |
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The emergence and wide acceptance of plate tectonics has had a profound influence on the way we look at the Earth. Starting as a theory to explain similarities in coast lines across the Atlantic, plate tectonics has become a unifying theory in the earth sciences. In this paper, we describe the role of staff of the Geological Survey of Canada in the developing and refining of this theory. At the same time, we illustrate the effect plate tectonics has had on our understanding of the evolution of offshore eastern Canada. Of critical importance in this development was the unique data set collected by systematic surveying of this region, largely by the Geological Survey of Canada, making the Grand Banks of Newfoundland one of the best-studied offshore areas in the world. Plate tectonic theory not only offers a framework for the evolution of ocean basins, continental margins, and their sedimentary basins, but also for the assemblage of continents. |
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Reading the stripes: offshore discoveries in plate tectonics with examples from eastern Canada |
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