Late Neoproterozoic to Permian tectonic evolution of the Quebec Appalachians, Canada

A Tremblay, N Pinet - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the unique location of the Quebec Appalachians in a re-entrant of the paleo-North
American margin and to the fact that the area largely escaped late Paleozoic deformation …

Pre-Carboniferous, episodic accretion-related, orogenesis along the Laurentian margin of the northern Appalachians

CR van Staal, JB Whalen… - Geological Society …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract During the Early to Middle Palaeozoic, prior to formation of Pangaea, the Canadian
and adjacent New England Appalachians evolved as an accretionary orogen. Episodic …

The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of …

CR Van Staal, JF Dewey, CM Niocaill… - Geological Society …, 1998 - lyellcollection.org
This paper presents new ideas on the Early Palaeozoic geography and tectonic history of
the Iapetus Ocean involved in the formation of the northern Appalachian-British Caledonide …

Stratigraphy, geochronology, and accretionary terrane settings of two Bronson Hill arc sequences, northern New England

RH Moench, JN Aleinikoff - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2002 - Elsevier
The Ammonoosuc Volcanics, Partridge Formation, and the Oliverian and Highlandcroft
Plutonic Suites of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium (BHA) in axial New England are widely …

U-Pb geochronology and origin of granitoid rocks in the Thetford Mines ophiolite, Canadian Appalachians

J Whitehead, GR Dunning… - Geological Society of …, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We integrate new and existing age data from ophiolite and subophiolite rocks in the Thetford
Mines region, Québec Appalachians, to determine the timing of:(1) oceanic crust …

Geochemical variations in a depleted fore-arc mantle: The Ordovician Thetford Mines Ophiolite

P Pagé, JH Bédard, A Tremblay - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
The∼ 5 km thick mantle of the Ordovician Thetford Mines Ophiolite is dominated by
harzburgite (≤ 5–6% clinopyroxene), cut by dunitic to orthopyroxenitic dykes. The plutonic …

The ocean–continent transition zones along the Appalachian–Caledonian Margin of Laurentia: Examples of large-scale hyperextension during the opening of the …

DM Chew, CR Van Staal - Geoscience Canada, 2014 - erudit.org
A combination of deep seismic imaging and drilling has demonstrated that the ocean-
continent transition (OCT) of present-day, magma-poor, rifted continental margins is a zone …

Surface and subsurface signatures of gas seepage in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Canada): significance to hydrocarbon exploration

N Pinet, M Duchesne, D Lavoie, A Bolduc… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2008 - Elsevier
The seabed of the St. Lawrence Estuary is characterized by many fluid releasing features.
On multibeam bathymetric images these features correspond to crater-like depression …

Structure and petroleum plays of the St. Lawrence Platform and Appalachians in southern Quebec: insights from interpretation of MRNQ seismic reflection data

S Castonguay, D Lavoie… - Bulletin of …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study presents the results of the reprocessing and geological reinterpretation of a trio of
regional seismic reflection lines acquired by the Ministère des Ressources naturelles du …

Structural characterization of late Silurian normal faults in the Quebec Appalachians: Implications for sedimentary basin formation and Laurentian margin exhumation …

M Perrot, A Tremblay - Journal of Structural Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Quebec Appalachians, the St-Joseph fault is a major normal fault that mostly
juxtaposes metamorphic remnants of the Laurentian margin in its footwall and the adjacent …