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: unknown
• Published: The Geological Society of America 2016
• Subjects: Labrador sea; ocean basin; Canada; Greenland; Makkovik; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01341.1; https://repository.derby.ac.uk/download/ab044a4cadbd499552a26ad0ab8a241fd38197db21e666f11ad3bb4d4cafcd28/1748/license.txt

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...