The Wopmay orogen is a Paleoproterozoic orogenic belt in northern Canada which formed during the collision between the Hottah terrane (north of the Hottah...
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anticlinoriums within the foreland fold and thrust belt of the Paleoproterozoic Wopmay Orogen. The gneisses of the Acasta Gneiss Complex were first regionally mapped...
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Wopmay orogenic system, the 1.9 Ga (billion years ago) Hottah terrane is separated from the Archean rocks of the orogen by the north-trending Wopmay fault...
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orogenic belt, which likely were similar to the modern Himalayas, and the Wopmay orogen of northwest Canada. During the assembly of the core of Laurentia, banded...
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margin of the Wopmay orogen which developed 1.875–1.840 Ga on older Proterozoic basement rocks. The medial or internal zone of the orogen form the eastern...
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9–1.8 Ga Trans-Hudson, Penokean, Taltson–Thelon, Wopmay, Ungava, Torngat, and Nagssugtoqidian orogens; the Kola, Karelia, Volgo–Uralia, and Sarmatia cratons...
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ophiolitic belt of the latter may extend into East Antarctica. The Wopmay orogen of northwest Canada may extend through eastern Australia into Antarctica...
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Trans-Hudson orogeny (redirect from Trans-Hudson orogen)
North American continent. It gave rise to the Trans-Hudson orogen (THO), or Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect (THOT), (also referred to as the Trans-Hudsonian...
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organisms collectively known as "Gabonionta" (Francevillian Group Fossil); Wopmay orogen along west border of the Canadian Shield. Bolide over 10 km in size...
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St-Onge, M R; King, J E; Lalonde, A E (1988). "Geology, East - Central Wopmay Orogen, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories". doi:10.4095/130452....
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