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The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus

C. R. Van Staal, J. F. Dewey, C. Mac Niocaill and W. S. McKerrow
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143, 197-242, 1 January 1998, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.17
C. R. Van Staal
1Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A OE8 Canada
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J. F. Dewey
2Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
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C. Mac Niocaill
2Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
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2Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
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Abstract

This paper presents new ideas on the Early Palaeozoic geography and tectonic history of the Iapetus Ocean involved in the formation of the northern Appalachian-British Caledonide Orogen. Based on an extensive compilation of data along the length of the orogen, particularly using well-preserved relationships in Newfoundland as a template, we show that this orogen may have experienced a very complicated tectonic evolution that resembles parts of the present west and southwest Pacific Ocean in its tectonic complexities. Closure of the west and southwest Pacific Ocean by forward modelling of the oblique collision between Australia and Asia shows that transpressional flattening and non-coaxial strain during terminal collision may impose a deceptively simple linearity and zonation to the resultant orogen and, hence, may produce a linear orogen like the Appalachian-Caledonian Belt. Oceanic elements may preserve along-strike coherency for up to several thousands of kilometres, but excision and strike-slip duplication, as a result of oblique convergence and terminal collisional processes, is expected to obscure elucidation of the intricacies of their accretion and collisional processes. Applying these lessons to the northern Appalachian-Caledonian belt, we rely principally on critical relationships preserved in different parts of the orogen to constrain tectonic models of kinematically-related rock assemblages.

The rift-drift transition, and opening of the Iapetus Ocean took place between c. 590–550 Ma. Opening of Iapetus was temporally and spatially related to final closure of the Brazilide Ocean and amalgamation of Gondwanaland. During the Early Ordovician, the Laurentian margin experienced obduction of young, supra-subduction-zone oceanic lithosphere along the length of the northern Appalachian-British Caledonian Belt. Remnants of this lithosphere are best preserved in western Newfoundland and are referred to as the Baie Verte Oceanic Tract. Convergence between Laurentia and the Baie Verte Oceanic Tract was probably dextrally oblique. Slab break-off and a subsequent subduction polarity reversal produced a continental magmatic arc, the Notre Dame Arc, on the edge of the composite Laurentian margin. The Notre Dame Arc was mainly active during the late Tremadoc-Caradoc interval and was flanked by a southeast- or south-facing accretionary complex, the Annieopsquotch Accretionary Tract. Southerly drift of Laurentia to intermediate latitudes of c. 20–25°S was associated with the compressive (Andean) nature of the arc and the accompanying backthrusting of the already-accreted Baie Verte Oceanic Tract further onto the Laurentian foreland. Equivalents of the Notre Dame Arc and its forearc elements in the British Isles have been preserved as independent slices in the Midland Valley and possibly the Northern Belt of the Southern Uplands.

During the late Tremadoc (c. 485 Ma), the passive margin on the eastern side of Iapetus also experienced obduction of primitive oceanic arc lithosphere. This arc is referred to as the Penobscot Arc. The eastern passive margin was built upon a Gondwanan fragment (Ganderia) that rifted off Amazonia during the Early Ordovician and probably travelled together with the Avalonian terranes as one microcontinent. The departure of Ganderia and Avalonia from Gondwana opened the Rheic Ocean. Equivalents of the Penobscot Arc may be preserved in New Brunswick and Maine, Leinster in eastern Ireland, and Anglesey in Wales. An arc-polarity reversal along the Ganderian margin after the soft Penobscot collision produced a new arc: the west-facing Popelogan-Victoria Arc, which probably formed a continuous arc system with the Bronson Hill Arc in New England. The Popelogan-Victoria Arc transgressed from a continental to an oceanic substrate from southern to northeastern Newfoundland. Rapid roll-back rifted the Popelogan-Victoria Arc away from Ganderia during the late Arenig (c. 473 Ma) and opened a wide back-arc basin; the Tetagouche-Exploits back-arc basin. The Popelogan-Victoria Arc was accreted sinistrally oblique to the Notre Dame Arc and, by implication, Laurentia during the Late Ordovician. After accretion, the northwestward-dipping subduction zone stepped eastwards into the Tetagouche-Exploits back-arc basin. Equivalents of the Popelogan-Victoria Arc in the British Isles may be preserved as small remnants in the Longford Down Inlier in Ireland. The Longford Down Arc is not preserved in Scotland, although its presence has been inferred there on the tenuous basis of arc detritus. The suture between the Notre Dame Arc and the Popelogan-Victoria-Longford Down Arc system is the Red Indian Line in the Northern Appalachians, but in the British Isles the position is not clear. The fault-bounded Grangegeeth Arc terrane in eastern Ireland, immediately to the south of the Longford Down inlier, may be a displaced piece of the Popelogan-Victoria-Longford Down Arc system. Diachronous closure of the Tetagouche-Exploits basin during the Ashgill to the Wenlock finally caused the collision between Ganderia/Avalonia and Laurentia, whereas the Lake District Arc is related to an earlier closure of the Tornquist Sea between Baltica and Avalonia. After arrival of Avalonia at the Laurentian margin, continuous, dextral oblique convergence between Gondwana and Laurentia was accommodated by another northwest-dipping subduction zone, this time in the Rheic Ocean. The Acadian orogeny in both North America and the British Isles occurred in the Early to Mid-Devonian and is probably related to the collision of Gondwana and/or peri-Gondwanan elements (Meguma, Armorica etc.) with the northern continents.

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The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus

C. R. Van Staal, J. F. Dewey, C. Mac Niocaill and W. S. McKerrow
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143, 197-242, 1 January 1998, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.17
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Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143, 197-242, 1 January 1998, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.17
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