Sm–Nd isotopic systematics as tectonic tracers: an example from West Avalonia in the Canadian Appalachians

JB Murphy, RD Nance - Earth-Science Reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
The tectonothermal evolution of West Avalonia in mainland Nova Scotia, Appalachian
orogen, provides an excellent example of the application of Sm–Nd isotopic analyses to …

The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: basin creation and destruction in the collisional zone of Pangea

MR Gibling, N Culshaw, MC Rygel… - Sedimentary basins of the …, 2008 - Elsevier
During the final assembly of Pangea, the Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada was
tectonically active for∼ 120 Myr from the Mid-Devonian to the Early Permian, following …

Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections

RD Nance, JB Murphy, RA Strachan… - Geological Society …, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Within the Appalachian–Variscan orogen of North America and southern Europe lie
a collection of terranes that were distributed along the northern margin of West Gondwana in …

Late Paleozoic strike‐slip faults in Maritime Canada and their role in the reconfiguration of the northern Appalachian orogen

JWF Waldron, SM Barr, AF Park, CE White… - Tectonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Major late Paleozoic faults, many with documented strike‐slip motion, have dissected the
Ordovician‐Devonian Appalachian orogen in the Maritime Provinces of Atlantic Canada …

[PDF][PDF] Composition of biotite from granitic rocks of the Canadian Appalachian orogen: a potential tectonomagmatic indicator?

AAT Shabani, AE Lalonde, JB Whalen - The Canadian Mineralogist, 2003 - academia.edu
Biotite, the dominant ferromagnesian mineral in Paleozoic granitic rocks of the Canadian
Appalachians, has been analyzed with an electron microprobe (wavelength dispersion) for …

Minas Fault Zone: Late Paleozoic history of an intra-continental orogenic transform fault in the Canadian Appalachians

JB Murphy, JWF Waldron, DJ Kontak… - Journal of Structural …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Minas Fault Zone (MFZ) defines the boundary between the Avalon and Meguma
terranes in the Canadian Appalachians and is exposed in mainland Nova Scotia and …

Middle to late Paleozoic Acadian orogeny in the northern Appalachians: A Laramide-style plume-modified orogeny?

J Brendan Murphy, CR van Staal… - …, 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide orogeny of the western United States is proposed as a modern analogue for
the Silurian-Devonian Acadian orogeny and subsequent diachronous, voluminous, short …

Birth and demise of the Rheic Ocean magmatic arc (s): Combined U–Pb and Hf isotope analyses in detrital zircon from SW Iberia siliciclastic strata

MF Pereira, G Gutíerrez-Alonso, JB Murphy, K Drost… - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Paleozoic continental reconstructions indicate that subduction of Rheic oceanic lithosphere
led to collision between Laurussia and Gondwana which was a major event in the formation …

The age and origin of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) as constrained by zircon U–Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and O–Hf isotopes

L Bickerton, DJ Kontak, JB Murphy… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
The South Mountain Batholith (SMB; Nova Scotia, Canada) is the largest composite
batholith exposed in the Appalachians and lies entirely within the most outboard Meguma …

Upper and lower crust recycling in the source of CAMP basaltic dykes from southeastern North America

S Callegaro, A Marzoli, H Bertrand, M Chiaradia… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
The densest dykes swarm of the Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) occur in
southeastern North America (SENA) and were intruded between 202 and 195 Ma during …