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Stouge, Svend, William D. Boyce, Jorgen L. Christiansen, David A. T. Harper, and Ian Knight, 2012, Development of the Lower Cambrian - Middle Ordovician Carbonate Platform: North Atlantic Region, in J. R. Derby, R. D. Fritz, S. A. Longacre, W. A. Morgan, and C. A. Sternbach, eds., The great American carbonate bank: The geology and economic resources of the Cambrian–Ordovician Sauk megasequence of Laurentia: AAPG Memoir 98, p. 597–626.

DOI:10.1306/13331509M983508

Copyright copy2012 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Development of the Lower Cambrian–Middle Ordovician Carbonate Platform: North Atlantic Region

Svend Stouge,1 David A. T. Harper,2 William D. Boyce,3 Ian Knight4Jorgen L. Christiansen,5

1Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
4Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

5Holbaek College of Education, Holbak, Denmark

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank the Danish Natural Science Research Council and the Carlsberg Foundation for financial support, which made fieldwork in Greenland and Svalbard possible. The comments of two referees improved the manuscript, and their efforts are greatly appreciated.

ABSTRACT

The northeastern margin of Laurentia formed an important part of the Iapetus Ocean and includes the development of the Franklinian Basin in North Greenland and Arctic Canada. The uninterrupted continental margin bordering the North American craton is represented by well-exposed successions in Northeast and eastern North Greenland, together with Svalbard and Bjornoya. Physiographically, the northeastern margin of Laurentia during the early Paleozoic history of Greenland was a northward extension of the passive rifted continental margin of the Caledonian continental edge of Laurentia. It was a transform-rifted margin and represents the part of the Laurentian margin that borders the Arctic part of the North Atlantic Ocean. Geologically, the northwestern segment of the continental margin has a somewhat different setting and development from farther south in the Northeast Greenland–Svalbard segment but both regions overlie a thick and extensive package of Neoproterozoic rocks and were affected by the Caledonian orogeny.

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