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Regional Caledonian structure within an oblique convergence zone, Dronning Louise Land, NE Greenland

R. A. STRACHAN, R. E. HOLDSWORTH, J. D. FRIDERICHSEN and H. F. JEPSEN
Journal of the Geological Society, 149, 359-371, 1 June 1992, https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.149.3.0359
R. A. STRACHAN
1 Department of Geology, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, OX3 OBP, UK.
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2 Department of Geological Sciences, University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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J. D. FRIDERICHSEN
3 Geological Survey of Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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3 Geological Survey of Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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Dronning Louise Land includes a well-exposed part of the marginal thrust zone that defines the western limit of the NE Greenland Caledonides. The autochthonous Laurentian craton west of the thrust zone comprises an orthogneissic basement which is overlain unconformably by sedimentary rocks of the Mid-Proterozoic Trekant Series and the Skolithos-bearing Zebra Series of probable latest Precambrian-early Cambrian age. This cover-basement sequence becomes strongly folded towards the thrust zone. The zone is characterized by numerous east-dipping thrust slices of mylonitized basement and metamorphosed equivalents of the Trekant and Zebra Series. Allochthonous rocks above the thrust zone are mainly heterogeneously reworked basement gneisses which in areas of low strain are similar in character and pre-Caledonian history to those of the foreland. Synclinal inliers of metasedimentary cover rocks include sequences correlated with the Zebra Series. The Caledonian thrust zone in NE Greenland does not therefore separate markedly different geological terrains. The orogen-parallel, sinistral Storstrømmen shear zone lies east of Dronning Louise Land, and it appears that the Caledonian deformation pattern in this part of the orogen is the product of sinistral transpression. The sequence of structures can be interpreted in terms of early low-angle sinistral strike-slip, followed by partitioned sinistral strike-slip and oblique thrusting, and later more or less orthogonal thrusting and folding. This sequence may indicate a significant component of oblique collision between Lauren tia and Baltica during closure of the Iapetus Ocean.

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Regional Caledonian structure within an oblique convergence zone, Dronning Louise Land, NE Greenland

R. A. STRACHAN, R. E. HOLDSWORTH, J. D. FRIDERICHSEN and H. F. JEPSEN
Journal of the Geological Society, 149, 359-371, 1 June 1992, https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.149.3.0359
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1 Department of Geology, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, OX3 OBP, UK.
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3 Geological Survey of Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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Journal of the Geological Society, 149, 359-371, 1 June 1992, https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.149.3.0359
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