Abstract The Iapetus Ocean was the first ancient ocean to be identified following the
development of plate tectonics; its history has been fundamental in relating orogenesis and …

The Killingworth dome of south-central Connecticut occurs at the southern end of the
Bronson Hill belt. It is composed of tonalitic and trondhjemitic orthogneisses (Killingworth …

Detrital zircon ages were determined for conglomerate and sandstone samples from six fault-
bounded belts in New Brunswick and coastal Maine. Formations sampled included the …

In the original Wilson cycle, the northern Appalachian–Caledonide orogen resulted from the
collision of two continental masses separated by a single ocean. One of these corresponds …

The Paleozoic era begins with the final assembly of Gondwana and ends with the
amalgamation of the supercontinent Pangea. Although this tectonic progression is generally …

Mesozoic rift basins of the Eastern North American Margin (ENAM) span from Florida in the
United States to the Grand Banks of Canada and formed during progressive extension prior …

Abstract The Central Maine Basin is the largest expanse of deep‐marine, Upper Ordovician
to Devonian metasedimentary rocks in the New England Appalachians, and is a key to the …

Zircon grains in granites from Avalonian and Ganderian rocks in southern New England host
brittle internal structures that are interpreted here to show the host rocks to be allochthonous …

Geologic mapping, structural analysis, and geochronology in the area of the Lyme dome,
southern Connecticut provides constraints on the origin of the rocks in the core of the dome …

The Dog Bay Line, a Silurian suture key to deciphering Appalachian accretionary history,
was first recognized in Newfoundland. It marks where the Ordovician Tetagouch–Exploits …