Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean: Evidence against a rotational origin
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A widely accepted model for the opening of Canada Basin is the counterclockwise rotation of Alaska and adjacent Chukotka. However the validity of that hypothesis is reassessed and fails to account for up to 600 km of continental overlap on restoration of 66 degrees of rotation and the absence of accommodating contractional structures in northern Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories.
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1997
Geology, Structural, Structural geology
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1997
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The control of sedimentary facies by climate during phases of crustal extension: examples from the Triassic of onshore and offshore England and Northern Ireland
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Publisher: Geological Society Publishing House
Publication Name: Journal of the Geological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0016-7649
Year: 1999
United Kingdom, Natural history, Geology, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Paleoclimatology, Rifts (Geology), Subsidences (Earth movements), Land subsidences, Triassic period
Publication Name: Journal of the Geological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0016-7649
Year: 1999
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Subjects list: Research, Basins (Geology)
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