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 …

Paleozoic tectonics of the southern Chinese Tianshan: Insights from structural, chronological and geochemical studies of the Heiyingshan ophiolitic mélange (NW …

B Wang, L Shu, M Faure, B Jahn, D Cluzel, J Charvet… - Tectonophysics, 2011 - Elsevier
In the southern Chinese Tianshan, the southernmost part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
(CAOB), widespread ophiolitic mélanges form distinct tectonic units that are crucial for …

U–Pb geochronology of the Acatlán Complex and implications for the Paleozoic paleogeography and tectonic evolution of southern Mexico

O Talavera-Mendoza, J Ruiz, GE Gehrels… - Earth and Planetary …, 2005 - Elsevier
Even though the Acatlán Complex in southern Mexico contains the largest exposure of
Paleozoic rocks in Mexico, it is commonly ignored in reconstructions of Pangea because of …

The record of Ordovician arc–arc and arc–continent collisions in the Canadian Appalachians during the closure of Iapetus

D Brown, PD Ryan, A Zagorevski, CR van Staal - Arc-continent collision, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Northern Appalachian orogen records complex Late Cambrian to Late Silurian
closure of the Iapetus Ocean, which led to significant outboard growth of the Laurentian …

Lower to Middle Ordovician evolution of peri-Laurentian arc and backarc complexes in Iapetus: Constraints from the Annieopsquotch accretionary tract, central …

A Zagorevski, N Rogers… - Geological …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Annieopsquotch accretionary tract in Newfoundland is composed of a series of west-
dipping structural panels, each containing remnants of ophiolitic and arc-backarc complexes …

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 …

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 …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

100 myr cycles of oceanic lithosphere generation in peri-Gondwana: Neoproterozoic–Devonian ophiolites from the NW African–Iberian margin of Gondwana and the …

R Arenas, SS Martínez, R Albert, F Haissen… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Variscan Orogen in Iberia and the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco contains a
set of ophiolites formed between Neoproterozoic and Devonian times, during the complex …

[PDF][PDF] Silurian extension in the Upper Connecticut Valley, United States and the origin of middle Paleozoic basins in the Quebec embayment

DW Rankin, RA Coish, RD Tucker, ZX Peng… - American Journal of …, 2007 - ajsonline.org
Pre-Silurian strata of the Bronson Hill arch (BHA) in the Upper Connecticut Valley, NH-VT
are host to the latest Ludlow Comerford Intrusive Suite consisting, east to west, of a mafic …