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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809481703321

Titolo

Appalachian tectonics / / edited by Thomas H. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1967

©1967

ISBN

1-4426-5479-1

1-4426-5288-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Special publications (Royal Society of Canada), no. 10. ; ; no. 10

Disciplina

551.809714

Soggetti

Geology, Structural - Canada

Geology, Structural - Appalachian Mountains

Electronic books.

Appalachian Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Klippen in Northern Newfoundland; Platform and Klippe Tectonics of Western Newfoundland: A Review; The Appalachian Region of Quebec: Some Aspects of its Divisions and Geology; The Taconic Unconformity in the Gaspe Peninsula and Neighbouring Regions; Tectonics of Part of the Sillery Formation in the Chaudiere-Matapedia Segment of the Quebec Appalachians; Contributions from Systematic Studies of Minor Structures in the Southern Quebec Appalachians; Geosynclinal Setting of the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Quebec and Northwestern New England.

Gravity Measurements in Appalachia and their Structural ImplicationsSome Geological and Tectonic Considerations of Eastern Canadian Earthquakes; Some Implications of New Ideas on Ocean-Floor Spreading upon the Geology of the Appalachians.

Sommario/riassunto

This book assembles the papers from the 1966 Royal Society of Canada symposium at Sherbrooke, Quebec-a city within the Appalachian Mountain System. This book assembles the papers of this symposium.