Diachronous burial and exhumation of a single tectonic unit during collisional orogenesis (Sulitjelma, Arctic Scandinavian Caledonides)

• Main Authors: Boyle, A.P., Burton, Kevin W., Westhead, R. Keith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 1994
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Arctic; Sulitjelma
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9079/; http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/vol22/issue11/

The Sulitjelma fold nappe represents part of a Caledonian marginal basin obducted during the closure of the Iapetus Ocean and collision between Laurentia and Baltica. Metamorphic pressure-temperature (P-T) paths indicate that various parts of the Sulitjelma fold nappe followed characteristic clockwi...