Late Mesoproterozoic rifting in Arctic Canada during Rodinia assembly: impactogens, trans‐continental far‐field stress and zinc mineralisation

• Published in: Terra Nova
• Main Authors: Turner, Elizabeth C., Long, Darrel G. F., Rainbird, Robert H., Petrus, Joseph A., Rayner, Nicole M.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Nanisivik
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ter.12207; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fter.12207; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ter.12207

Abstract This paper challenges the conventional interpretation of a major, economically important Mesoproterozoic intracratonic rift system as a group of aulacogens, proposing instead that they are rifts that developed in response to far‐field stress caused by continent–continent collision (impactog...