Evidence of Late Ediacaran Hyperextension of the Laurentian Iapetan Margin in the Birchy Complex, Baie Verte Peninsula, Northwest Newfoundland: Implications for the Opening of Iapetus, Formation of PeriLaurentian Microcontinents and Taconic – Grampian Orogenesis

• Main Authors: Van Staal, Cees R., Chew, Dave M., Zagorevski, Alexandre, Mcnicoll, Vicki, Hibbard, James, Skulski, Tom, Castonguay, Sébastien, Escayola, Monica Patricia, Sylvester, Paul J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Assoc Canada
• Subjects: Ediacarian; Iapetus; Taconic; Origenesis; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Verte; Baie Verte; Fleur de Lys; Baie Verte Peninsula; Rattling Brook; Flat Point; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/11473

The Birchy Complex of the Baie Verte Peninsula, northwestern Newfoundland, comprises an assemblage of mafic schist, ultramafic rocks, and metasedimentary rocks that are structurally sandwiched between overlying ca. 490 Ma ophiolite massifs of the Baie Verte oceanic tract and underlying metasedimenta...