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Parallel geological development in the Dunnage Zone of Newfoundland and the Lower Palaeozoic terranes of southern Scotland: an assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

S. P. Colman-Sadd ,
P. Stone ,
H. S. Swinden  and
R. P. Barnes
S. P. Colman-Sadd
Affiliation:
S. P. Colman-Sadd and H. S. Swinden, Geological Survey Branch, Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, P.O. Box 8700, St John's, Newfoundland A1B 4J6, Canada
P. Stone
Affiliation:
P. Stone and R. P. Barnes, British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, U.K.
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Abstract

The Notre Dame and Exploits subzones of Newfoundland's Dunnage Zone are correlated with the Midland Valley and Southern Uplands of Scotland, using detailed comparisons of two key Lower Palaeozoic successions which record similar histories of extension and compression. It follows that the Baie Verte Line, Red Indian Line and Dover Fault are equivalent to the Highland Boundary Fault, Southern Upland Fault and Solway Line, respectively.

The Betts Cove Complex and overlying Snooks Arm Group of the Notre Dame Subzone are analogous to the Ballantrae Complex of the Midland Valley, both recording the Arenig evolution and subsequent obduction of an arc and back-arc system. The Early Ordovician to Silurian sequence unconformably overlying the Ballantrae Complex is poorly represented in the Notre Dame Subzone but important similarities can still be detected suggesting corresponding histories of continental margin subsidence and marine transgression.

In the Exploits Subzone, Early Ordovician back-arc volcanic rocks are overlain by Llandeilo mudstones and Late Ordovician to Early Silurian turbidites. A similar stratigraphy occurs in the Northern and Central Belts of the Southern Uplands and both areas have matching transpressive structural histories. Deeper erosion in the Exploits Subzone reveals Cambrian and Early Ordovician volcano-sedimentary sequences structurally emplaced on the Gander Zone, and such rocks are probably present beneath the Southern Uplands. Combined data from the Notre Dame Subzone and Midland Valley suggest an Arenig southeast-dipping subduction zone. Early Ordovician volcanic rocks in the Exploits Subzone and Southern Uplands have back-arc basin geochemistry and support the model of the Southern Uplands as a transition from back-arc to foreland basin. Preferential emergence of the Dunnage Zone and contrasts between Exploits Subzone and Southern Uplands turbidite basins are attributed to collision of Newfoundland with a Laurentian promontory and Scotland with a re-entrant. This hypothesis also explains the transpressive structural regime common to both areas.

Keywords

comparisonNotre Dame SubzoneExploits SubzoneMidland ValleySouthern Uplandsophiolitesback-arctranspressionpromontoryre-entrantdelamination
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , 1992 , pp. 571 - 594
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992

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