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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: MDPI 2018
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; Makkovik; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/25977/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/25977/1/25977.pdf; 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...