Evidence for Basement Reactivation during the Opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from Field Data and Numerical Models

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Alexander L. Peace, Edward D. Dempsey, Christian Schiffer, J. Kim Welford, Ken J. W. McCaffrey, Jonathan Imber, Jordan J. J. Phethean
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: rifting; passive margin; continental breakup; stress inversion; plate tectonics; geopotential stress; numerical modelling; field geology; Canada; Greenland; Makkovik; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8080308

The onshore exposures adjacent to modern, offshore passive continental margins may preserve evidence of deformation from the pre-, syn-, and post-rift phases of continental breakup that allow us to investigate the processes associated with and controlling rifting and breakup. Here, we characterize o...