Evolution of the Appalachian laurentian margin: Lithoprobe results in western Newfoundland

• Main Authors: Waldron, J W F, Anderson, S D, Cawood, Peter Anthony, Goodwin, L B, Hall, J, Jamieson, R A, Palmer, S E, Stockmal, C S, Williams, P F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: AU-PORT PENINSULA; SEISMIC-REFLECTION PROFILE; HUMBER ARM ALLOCHTHON; LONG-RANGE DIKES; TABLE HEAD GROUP; U-PB ZIRCON; MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; ISLANDS OPHIOLITE; CANADIAN APPALACHIANS; Table Head; Verte; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/evolution-of-the-appalachian-laurentian-margin-lithoprobe-results-in-western-newfoundland(668a22ff-5f6d-45bd-8fb3-fe21f30ca4d7).html; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032322825&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The Humber Zone of the western Newfoundland Appalachians represents the early Paleozoic Laurentian margin established by Neoproterozoic rifting. After a period of passive margin thermal subsidence, Taconian deformation began in the Early Ordovician with westward thrusting. Subsequently, an extensive...