Faults and fractures in central West Greenland: onshore expression of continental break-up and sea-floor spreading

• Main Authors: Robert W. Wilson, Knud Erik, S. Klint, Jeroen A. M. Van Gool, Kenneth J. W. Mccaffrey, Robert E. Holdsworth, James A. Chalmers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: faults and fractures; extensional tectonics; wrench systems; sedimentary basins; basement reactivation; West; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Sisimiut; Baffin; Davis Strait; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.628.2720; http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr11/nr11_p185-204.pdf

The complex Ungava fault zone lies in the Davis Strait and separates failed spreading centres in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. This study focuses on coastal exposures east of the fault-bound Sisimiut basin, where the onshore expressions of these fault systems and the influence of pre-existing bas...