Stratigraphic and geochemical constraints on the relative age of the Margaree Shear Zone in western Cape Breton Island, with implications for the early evolution of the Maritimes Basin

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Author: Lynch, Gregory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 1996
• Subjects: Breton Island; Tait
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/2075

The Margaree Shear Zone is interpreted to be a thick, brittle-ductile low-angle extensional fault which was active in the Mid to Late Devonian at the lime of initiation of the Maritimes Basin. In western Cape Breton Island, the fault separates two distinct basalt assemblages: low-grade to non-metamo...