‘stockwerke ’ concept

Higgins and A. Graham Leslie Recognition of the Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg foreland windows during the 1997–1998 regional mapping expeditions to the East Greenland Caledonides provided critical evidence for large-scale, westward-directed thrusting in the Kong Oscar Fjord region (72°–75°N), a revelati...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
A.G.L
British Geological Survey
Murchison House
Edinburgh EH9 3LA
UK
Greenland
Kong Oscar Fjord
Målebjerg
Murchison
East Greenland
Kong Oscar fjord
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.514.3918
http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr6/nr6_p77-93.pdf
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Summary:Higgins and A. Graham Leslie Recognition of the Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg foreland windows during the 1997–1998 regional mapping expeditions to the East Greenland Caledonides provided critical evidence for large-scale, westward-directed thrusting in the Kong Oscar Fjord region (72°–75°N), a revelation that dealt a final blow to the ‘stockwerke ’ concept of an in situ highly mobile infrastructure charac-terised by rising fronts of Caledonian migmatisation and metasomatism. This paper reviews earlier investigations in both the Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg areas, and the misinterpretations of rock units that initially obscured recognition of their foreland affinity. The Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg windows can now be placed in context, as part of the lowest structural level of the foreland-propagating thrust pile of the Kong Oscar Fjord region.

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