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: Peace, Alexander, McCaffrey, Ken, Imber, Jonathan, Phethean, Jordan, Nowell, Geoff, Gerdes, Keith, Dempsey, Edward
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 2016
• Subjects: Energy; Environment and Sustainability; Specialist Research - Other; Canada; Greenland; Makkovik; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/968226; 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 early as the Late Triassic or Jurassic, culminating in a brief period of seafloor spreading commencing by polarity chron 27 (C27;...