Contrasting tectonic styles in the northern Grenville province: Implications for the dynamics of orogenic fronts
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Contrasting tectonic styles in the northern Grenville province : Implications for the dynamics of orogenic fronts. / Rivers, T.; van Gool, J. A. M.; Connelly, J. N.
In: Geology, Vol. 21, No. 12, 1993, p. 1127-1130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Contrasting tectonic styles in the northern Grenville province
T2 - Implications for the dynamics of orogenic fronts
AU - Rivers, T.
AU - van Gool, J. A. M.
AU - Connelly, J. N.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - In western Labrador, tectonic elements of the parautochthonous belt of the northern Grenville orogen include a regional, mid-crustal, thin-skinned, metamorphic fold-thrust belt structurally overlain by a thick-skinned thrust sheet with a high-pressure metamorphic signature. In central Ontario, the parautochthonous belt is composed of a major reverse-sense shear zone, along which deep crustal rocks have been uplifted and exhumed. Tectonic models for both areas involve crustal shortening by delamination in the lower crust and tectonically driven exhumation up a crustal-scale ramp. The fold-thrust belt northwest of the ramp in Labrador is a result of the development of critical topography in the thrust wedge at the top of the ramp and the accretion of thrust slices to the base of the wedge during its propagation onto the foreland. The fold-thrust belt is absent in Ontario because syntectonic erosion of the thrust wedge prevented the development of critical topography. -Authors
AB - In western Labrador, tectonic elements of the parautochthonous belt of the northern Grenville orogen include a regional, mid-crustal, thin-skinned, metamorphic fold-thrust belt structurally overlain by a thick-skinned thrust sheet with a high-pressure metamorphic signature. In central Ontario, the parautochthonous belt is composed of a major reverse-sense shear zone, along which deep crustal rocks have been uplifted and exhumed. Tectonic models for both areas involve crustal shortening by delamination in the lower crust and tectonically driven exhumation up a crustal-scale ramp. The fold-thrust belt northwest of the ramp in Labrador is a result of the development of critical topography in the thrust wedge at the top of the ramp and the accretion of thrust slices to the base of the wedge during its propagation onto the foreland. The fold-thrust belt is absent in Ontario because syntectonic erosion of the thrust wedge prevented the development of critical topography. -Authors
U2 - 10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<1127:CTSITN>2.3.CO;2
DO - 10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<1127:CTSITN>2.3.CO;2
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84879886618
VL - 21
SP - 1127
EP - 1130
JO - Geology
JF - Geology
SN - 0091-7613
IS - 12
ER -
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