The Notre Dame arc and the Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland

• Main Authors: van Staal, C.R., Whalen, J.B., McNicoll, V.J., Pehrsson, S., Lissenberg, Cornelis Johan, Zagorevski, A., van Breemen, O., Jenner, G.A.
• Other Authors: Hatcher, R. D., Carlson, M. P., McBride, J. H., Martínez Catalán, J. R.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 2007
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; QE Geology; Baie Verte; Snooks Arm; Verte; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9911/

The Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland consisted of three accretionary events (Taconic 1, 2, and 3). Taconic 1 is represented by ca. 495 Ma, west-directed obduction of the infant-arc Lushs Bight oceanic tract (510–501 Ma) onto the peri-Laurentian Dashwoods microcontinent. Subduction is inferred to have...