Palaeomagnetism of the Early Carboniferous Deer Lake Group, western Newfoundland: no evidence for mid-Carboniferous displacement of ``Acadia''

Details Palaeomagnetism of the Early Carboniferous Deer Lake Group, western Newfoundland: no evidence for mid-Carboniferous displacement of ``Acadia'' Palaeomagnetism of the Early Carboniferous Deer Lake Group, western Newfoundland: no evidence for mid-Carboniferous displacement of ``Acadia''

Aug 1984

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 69, Issue 2, p. 379-390.

Physics

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Early Carboniferous (Viséan to possibly earliest Namurian) sedimentary rocks of the Deer Lake Group of western Newfoundland rest unconformably on Grenvillian basement rocks of the Canadian Shield which form the western border of the Early Palaeozoic Appalachian orogen. In addition to magnetically soft magnetizations directed along the present field, three families of magnetization directions are found. Two of them (referred to as N (north) and S (south)) are antiparallel and prefolding, and were probably acquired during the depositional process. N and S are roughly of equal frequency. They have a mean direction irrespective of sign of 0.7°, -35.2°, k = 40, α95 = 8.9°, and a palaeopole 21.5°N, 121.8°E (10.3°, 6.0°) corresponding to a palaeolatitude of 20 +/- 6°S. This agrees with the palaeolatitude (17 +/- 5°S) determined from the somewhat older Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Terenceville Formation of the Avalon Platform on the eastern side of the Appalachian orogen in Newfoundland. The third magnetization, referred to as H (roughly horizontal), has a mean direction 156.8°, -13.3°, k = 37, α95 = 10.1°, and a palaeopole 45.4°N, 140.3°E (10.3°, 5.3°) corresponding to a palaeolatitude of 7 +/- 4°N we interpret this to be an early Kiaman (latest Carboniferous to early Permian) overprint probably acquired chemically. The palaeolatitude determined from the H overprint agrees with that determined from Early Carboniferous rocks of cratonic North America west of the Appalachians. Therefore, we argue, Early Carboniferous palaeofield determinations for cratonic North America have been strongly biased by unremoved Kiaman overprints. Because of this, and because of the good agreement between Early Carboniferous palaeolatitudes obtained from opposite margins of the Appalachian orogen, we suggest that there is, at present, no palaeomagnetic evidence for the previously proposed 1500 km displacement from the south of an eastern portion of the Appalachians (``Acadia'') relative to cratonic North America during the Carboniferous.

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