The Late Proterozoic to Palaeozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Long Range Mountains in Southwestern Newfoundland

• Main Author: Brem, Arjan Gerben
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Newfoundland Appalachians; Laurentian margin; Cabot Fault Zone; Corner Brook Lake block; Dashwoods subzone; Kinematic analyses; Geochronological analyses; Neoproterozoic; Palaeozoic; Strike-slip tectonics; Earth Sciences; Baie Verte; Cabot; Corner Brook; Verte; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2748

Ever since the first plate-tectonic model for the Appalachians was proposed, the Laurentian margin has been interpreted as having experienced a collision-related dynamo-thermal event during the Middle Ordovician Taconic orogeny. In the western Newfoundland Appalachians, evidence for this collision i...