Taconian orogeny and the accretion of the Dashwoods block: A peri-Laurentian microcontinent in the lapetus Ocean

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 811-814

  Waldron, John W F ^a   van Staal, Cees R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appalachians; Collision; Stratigraphy; Taconian; Tectonics; Terranes

Indexed keywords

TACONIAN OROGENY;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

GEOLOGY;

CAMBRIAN; IAPETUS OCEAN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TACONIC OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 84879883734     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0811:TOATAO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Facies and structural contrasts across Bonne Bay cross-strike discontinuity, western New-foundland
2. Timing of peak metamorphism and deformation along the Appalachian margin of Laurentia in Newfoundland: Silurian not Ordovician
3. Geological development of eastern Humber and western Punnage: (arner Brook-Glover Island region, Newfoundland
4. Cambrian grand cycles: A northern Appalachian perspective
5. Notes to accompany a geologic map of the southern Long Range, southwestern Newfoundland
6. Age of high grade gneisses south of Grand Lake, Newfoundland
7. A model for the evolution of the Grampian tract in the early Caledonides and Appalachians
8. New insights into the Appalachian orogen from geology and geochronology along the Cape Ray fault zone, southwest Newfoundland
9. The Annieopsquotch ophiolite belt of southwest Newfoundland: Geology and tectonic significance
10. U/Pb ages of single zircons from chain Lakes Massif and a correlative unit in ophiolitic mélange in Quebec
11. Geology of southern End of Long Range Mountains (Dashwoods Subzone), Newfoundland
12. The age of the Sept Iles layered mafic intrusion, Canada: Implications for the late Neoproterozoic/Cambrian history of southeastern Canada
13. New tectonic constraints on the Boil Mountain complex/Chain Lakes unit contact, central western Maine
14. Peripheral bulge - A causal mechanism for the Lower/Middle Ordovician unconformity along the western margin of the Northern Appalachians
15. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Cambro-Ordovician Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland
16. Allochthonous slope sequence at Lobster Cove Head: Evidence for a complex Middle Ordovician platform margin in western New foundland
17. Metamorphism of an early Paleozoic continental margin, western Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland
18. Paleomagnetism of the Moreton's Harbour Group, northeastern Newfoundland Appalachians: Evidence for an Early Ordovician island arc near the Laurentian margin of Iapetus
19. Birthdate for the Iapetus Ocean? A precise U-Pb zircon and baddeleyite age for the Long Range dikes, southeast Labrador
20. Stratigraphy of the Saint George Group (Lower Ordovician): The interaction between eustasy and tectonics
21. The Ordovician St. George unconformity, northern Appalachians: The relationship of plate convergence at the St. Lawrence Promontory to the Sauk/Tippecanoe sequence boundary
22. Geochemistry and U-Pb zircon age of comenditic metafelsites of the Tibbit Hill Formation, Quebec Appalachians
23. Detachment models for the formation of passive continental margins
24. Paleomagnetism of the 550 Ma Skinner Cove volcanics of western Newfoundland and opening of the lapetus Ocean
25. The Paleozoic timescale reviewed
26. Tectonic evolution of the Quebec-Maine Appalachians: From oceanic spreading to obduction and collision in the Northern Appalachians
27. Carbonate platform to foreland basin: Revised stratigraphy of the Table Head Group (Middle Ordovician), western Newfoundland
28. Magmatic and tectonic evolution of the Cambrian-Ordovician margin of lapetus: Geochemical and isotopic constraints from the Notre Dame subzone, Newfoundland
29. Geological interpretation of a high resolution reflection seismic survey at the Buchans mine, Newfoundland
30. Alternative hypotheses for the Chain Lakes massif, Maine and Quebec
31. Geology Port aux Basques, Newfoundland (Part of NTS 11-O/11)
32. The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: History of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of lapetus
33. Basin development and inversion at the Appalachian structural front. Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland Appalachians
34. Evolution of the Appalachian Laurentian margin: Lithoprobe results in western Newfoundland
35. Episodic Ordovician-Silurian plutonism in the Topsails igneous terrane, western Newfoundland
36. Implications of granitoid geochemical and isotopic (Nd, O. Pb) data from the Cambrian-Ordovician Notre Dame arc for the evolution of the Central mobile belt, Newfoundland Appalachians
37. Insights into tectonostratigraphic zone identification in southwestern Newfoundland based on isotopic (Nd, O, Pb) and geochemical data
38. Appalachian orogen in Canada
39. Temporal and spatial divisions
40. Definition of the lapetus rift-drift transition in western Newfoundland
41. Lower Paleozoic fossils from Newfoundland and their importance in understanding the history of the lapetus Ocean