Taconic Metamorphism Preserved in the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland Appalachians: Geochronological Evidence for Ophiolite Obduction and Subduction and Exhumation of the Leading Edge of the Laurentian (Humber) Margin During Closure of the Taconic Seaw

• Published in: Geoscience Canada
• Main Authors: Castonguay, Sébastien, van Staal, Cees R., Joyce, Nancy, Skulski, Thomas, Hibbard, James P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Geological Association of Canada 2014
• Subjects: Verte; Baie Verte; Baie Verte Peninsula; East Pond; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1062255ar; https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2014.41.055

The Baie Verte Peninsula, western Newfoundland Appalachians, preserves evidence for Early to Mid Ordovician closure of the Taconic seaway, which led to obduction of the Baie Verte oceanic tract (BVOT) ophiolites onto the Laurentian (Humber) margin and Taconic orogenesis. The scarcity of Taconic radi...