The Wandel Hav Strike-Slip Mobile Belt - A Mesozoic plate boundary in North Greenland: Tektonisk pladegrænse i NØ-Grønland

Bidragets oversatte titel: Wandel Hav sideværts forkastnings bælte - en mesozoisk bladegrænse i Nordgrønland

Eckart Håkansson, Stig A. Schack Pedersen

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    The historical 'de Geer Line' between Svalbard and Greenland is shown to have had a Mesozoic precursor now residing well within the continental Greenland plate, where it coincides with the Wandel Hav Strike-Slip Mobile Belt. Well-constrained phases in relative plate motion reflected in the mobile belt are discernible back to the mid Jurassic, with more obscure phases dating even further back. There is evidence that the Wandel Hav Strike-Slip Mobile Belt may have been formed already in Late Palaeozoic time during onset of Pangean break-up; evidence for strike-slip movements of this age is, however, largely circumstantial, due to severe overprinting during the later phases. Wrench tectonics along the 'fossil' plate boundary culminated around the Cretaceous - Palaeogene boundary in the major right-lateral, transpressional Kronprins Christian Land Orogeny. Thus, the Wandel Hav Strike-Slip Mobile Belt may constitute the geological/structural expression of the Mesozoic Laurentian - Eurasian plate boundary all the way up to initiation of actual sea-floor spreading at chron 24 in Palaeogene time.

    Bidragets oversatte titelWandel Hav sideværts forkastnings bælte - en mesozoisk bladegrænse i Nordgrønland
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Sider (fra-til)149-158
    Antal sider10
    TidsskriftBulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark
    Vol/bind48
    Udgave nummer2
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2001

    Emneord

    • Geotectonics
    • Arctic
    • Greenland

    Programområde

    • Programområde 5: Natur og klima

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