Lower to Middle Ordovician evolution of peri-Laurentian arc and backarc complexes in Iapetus: Constraints from the Annieopsquotch accretionary tract, central Newfoundland

• Published in: Geological Society of America Bulletin
• Main Authors: Zagorevski, A., Rogers, N., van Staal, C. R., McNicoll, V., Lissenberg, Cornelis Johan, Valverde-Vaquero, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 2006
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; QE Geology; Indian; Otter Pond; Pacific; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9914/; https://doi.org/10.1130/B25775.1

The Annieopsquotch accretionary tract in Newfoundland is composed of a series of west-dipping structural panels, each containing remnants of ophiolitic and arc-backarc complexes of Laurentian affinity formed during the Ordovician closure of Iapetus. Panels were transferred from an upper-plate to a l...