Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pepi...39...89m&link_type=abstract
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 39, Issue 2, p. 89-107.
Physics
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Scientific paper
Paleomagnetic studies have been made of certain constituents of the Bay St. George sub-basin. Specifically, results are reported from the Spout Falls Formation (Tournaisian), the Jeffreys Village Member of the Robinsons River Formation (Visean), and the Searston Formation (Namurian-Westphalian). The following magnetizations have been isolated: Spout Falls A (Tournaisian) with D = 343.5°, I = -22.7°, k = 61.2, α95 = 7.1° and the corresponding pole at 28.6°N, 139.5°E (4.5°, 8.5°) Spout Falls B (Kiaman) with D = 166.7°, I = 12.2°, k = 51.7, α95 = 10.7° and the corresponding pole at 34.5°S, 42.7°W (5.5°, 10.9°) Jeffreys Village A (Visean) with D = 351.2°, I = -27.3°, k = 54.0, α95 = 7.6° and the corresponding pole at 26.5°N, 130.7°E (4.5°, 8.3°) Searston A (Namurian) with D = 161.7°, I = 11.7°, k = 107, α95 = 7.4° and the corresponding pole at 33.9°S, 37.2°W (3.8°, 7.5°) and Searston C with D = 111.6°, I = -13.8°, k = 28.8, α95 = 14.5° and the corresponding pole at 19.6°S, 19.0°E (7.6°, 14.8°). After comparison with paleopoles of similar ages derived from eastern and western Newfoundland rocks, from constituents of the east coast basin and for interior North America, it is concluded that: (1) it is unlikely that any large scale relative motion took place since the Early Carboniferous between eastern and western Newfoundland; (2) it is unlikely that any north-south relative motion took place between the east coast basin and the Bay St. George sub-basin; and (3) the Bay St. George sub-basin results do not support the earlier proposed displaced terrane hypothesis of the northern Appalachians in as much as the motions during the Carboniferous are not supported. There is evidence of the northward motion of the Appalachians and North America as a whole during the Carboniferous. The magnetostratigraphic horizon marker in the Carboniferous separating a dominant normal and reversed magnetization on the older side and an entirely reversed (Kiaman) magnetization on the younger side may be placed in the Bay St. George sub-basin at the base of the Searston Formation.
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