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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Avalonia"”.
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The Skiddaw Group of Cumbria : early Ordovician Turbidite sedimentation and provenance on an evolving microcontinental margin.
… Isles were part of a microcontinent Eastern Avalonia. In the early Ordovician Eastern Avalonia was close to the continent of Gondwana. in high southern latitudes. Northward drift of Eastern Avalonia during the Ordovician brought it towards Baltica and Laurentia, resulting in continental …
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Across- and along-strike structural and geochronological variations of the Nashoba-Putnam and Avalon terranes, eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, southeastern New England Appalachians
… southeastern New England Avalon terrane and with Avalonia in eastern Canada. Analyzed samples are isotopically similar to others in the New England Avalon terrane, and to Avalonia in Canada, especially the Gamble Brook Formation in the northern part of Nova Scotia. Finally, detrital zircon of the …
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Sedimentology of the Catalina Dome and taxonomy of Mistaken Point small fronds
Research carried out in the Ediacaran of eastern Newfoundland focused on two projects: sedimentology of the Conception and St. John’s groups exposed on the Bonavista Peninsula; and taxonomic descriptions of the small, stemmed frondose fossils at Mistaken Point on the Avalon Peninsula. …
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The Mall Bay Formation (Ediacaran) and the Protracted Onset of the Gaskiers Glaciation in Newfoundland, Canada
The Gaskiers glaciation (580 Ma) immediately preceded the appearance of the Earth’s first large, complex, soft-bodied, fossils of the Ediacara biota. The Gaskiers glaciation is generally regarded as being short-lived and confined to the stratigraphic extent of the Gaskiers Formation in eastern …