Kinematics of the Phippsburg Shear Zone at Hermit Island and the Wood Islands, Small Point, Maine

• Main Author: Miller, Peter Kent
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SCARAB 2012
• Subjects: Small Point; shear zone; shear strain; Acadian; Geology; Fossen; Hermit Island
• Online Access: https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/36; https://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=honorstheses

The Phippsburg Shear Zone is located within the Casco Bay restraining bend associated with the Norumbega fault zone in south central Maine. Mapping of the shear zone was conducted at Hermit Island during the summer of 2011 as part of an EDMAP grant. The shear zone deforms schists of the Ordovician C...