Taconian Obduction and Silurian Exhumation of the Betts Cove Ophiolite, Canadian Appalachians.

• Published in: The Journal of Geology
• Main Authors: Tremblay, Alain, Bédard, Jean H., Lauzière, Kathleen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: exhumation; obduction; ophiolite; Silurian; Taconic orogeny; Verte; Baie Verte; Baie Verte Peninsula; Betts Cove; Cape St. John; Snooks Arm; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/9449/; https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/9449/1/P449.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1086/515976

In the Newfoundland Appalachians, the Betts Cove Complex and cover rocksof the Snooks Arm Group form a composite section of Ordovician marginal oceanic crust that is unconformably overlain by Silurian terrestrial sedimentary rocks and bimodal volcanics of the Cape St. John Group. Tectonic fabrics th...