All Articles tagged Newfoundland

• Science Paper
  February 26, 2024 EDT
  Late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian Breakup Sequences and Establishment of the Eastern Laurentian Passive Margin, Newfoundland, Canada
  Maya SoukupLuke P. BeranekStefanie LodeDylan GoudieDavid Grant

  The magma-poor, eastern Laurentian margin resulted from polyphase rifting, which culminated with the deposition of Ediacaran to Cambrian breakup sequences that formed in response to crust and mantle rupture events.

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• Science Paper
  May 01, 2020 EDT
  Tectonics and Foreland Basin Development at the Leading Edge of the Humber Arm Allochthon, Western Newfoundland, Canadian Appalachians
  Ryan A. LacombeJohn W. F. WaldronS. Henry Williams

  The thrust front of the Northern Appalachians involves Ediacaran rift-related structures of the Laurentian margin that were re-worked in Taconic (Ordovician), Salinic (mainly Silurian) and Acadian (mainly Devonian) deformation events....

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• Science Paper
  October 01, 2019 EDT
  Provenance of the Newfoundland Appalachian Foreland Basins
  Shawna E. WhiteJohn W.F. WaldronGreg R. DunningS. Andrew Dufrane

  The tectonic history of the Appalachian orogen is recorded in the adjacent foreland. Offshore seismic data suggest that an initial, Middle Ordovician foreland basin was filled by sources in Newfoundland,...

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• Science Paper
  May 01, 2017 EDT
  Bridging the Gap Between the Foreland and Hinterland II: Geochronology and Tectonic Setting of Ordovician Magmatism and Basin Formation on the Laurentian Margin of New England and Newfoundland
  Francis A. MacdonaldPaul M. KarabinosJames L. CrowleyEben B. HodginPeter W. CrockfordJohn W. Delano

  Ordovician strata of the Mohawk Valley and Taconic allochthon of New York and the Humber margin of Newfoundland record multiple magmatic and basin-forming episodes associated with the Taconic orogeny. Here...

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• Science Paper
  February 01, 1895 EDT
  Observations Upon the Glacial Phenomena of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Southern Greenland
  George Frederick Wright

  Contains descriptions of the evidence of glaciation at three places in Labrador, and (in more detail) the appearance of fiords and glaciers in the Sukkertoppen region of southwest Greenland; based...

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• Science Paper
  November 01, 1891 EDT
  Geological Facts Noted on Grand River, Labrador
  Austin Cary

  Results of Bowdoin College expedition to Labrador, 1891. Notes on the Grand (i.e. Hamilton) River and Grand Falls, with addendum p. 516.

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• Science Paper
  January 01, 1866 EDT
  Results of Observations on the Drift Phenomena of Labrador and the Atlantic Coast Southward
  Alpheus Spring Packard

  Sketch of the evidences of glaciation and mention of glacial age fossils.

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