Evidence for basement reactivation during the opening of the Labrador sea from the Makkovik province, Labrador, Canada: insights from field data and numerical models

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Peace, Alexander, Dempsey, Edward, Schiffer, Christian, Welford, J., McCaffrey, Ken, Imber, Jonathan, Phethean, Jordan
• Other Authors: Durham University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, University of Hull, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018
• Subjects: rifting; passive margin; continental breakup; stress inversion; plate tectonics; geopotential stress; numerical modelling; field geology; Canada; Greenland; Makkovik; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624260; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8080308

The onshore exposures adjacent to modern, offshore passive continental margins may preserve evidence of deformation from the pre-, syn-, and post-rift phases of continental breakup that allow us to investigate the processes associated with and controlling rifting and breakup. Here, we characterize o...