An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea : implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry.

• Published in: Geosphere
• Main Authors: Phethean, Jordan, Peace, Alexander, McCaffrey, Ken, Imber, Jonathan, Nowell, Geoff, Gerdes, Keith, Dempsey, Edward
• Other Authors: Durham University, Shell International
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Geological Society of America 2016
• Subjects: Labrador sea; ocean basin; Canada; Greenland; Makkovik; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624259; https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01341.1

The Labrador Sea is a small (~900 km wide) ocean basin separating southwest Greenland from Labrador, Canada. It opened following a series of rifting events that began as arly as the Late Triassic or Jurassic, culminating in a brief period of seafloor spreading commencing by polarity chron 27 (C27; D...