The effects of strike-slip motion along the Cobequid - Chedabucto - Southwest Grand Banks fault system on the Cretaceous-Tertiary evolution of Atlantic Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 799-808

  Pe Piper, Georgia ^a   Piper, David J W ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; COMPACTION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS; VOLCANOES;

FAULT ZONES; NEWFOUNDLAND FRACTURE ZONE; OLIGOCENE COMPRESSION; RIVER BASINS;

GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FRACTURE ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; SCOTIA SHELF;

EID: 4644262861     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E04-022     Document Type: Article

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