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Deep-marine Foreland Basin and Forearc Sedimentation: a Comparative Study from the Lower Palaeozoic Northern Appalachians, Quebec and Newfoundland

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Marine Clastic Sedimentology

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Deep-marine foreland basins may develop during continent-arc or continent-continent collision upon relatively thin lithosphere. Plate interactions that generate essentially compressive stresses to develop a thrust imbricate stack may result in lithospheric flexure and the initiation of a foredeep or foreland basin. Such basins can form in remnant forearc and backarc or marginal basins. In ancient orogenic belts, it is often difficult to recognize deep-marine foreland basins and to differentiate them from forearc or backarc basins. This paper presents a general overview of our current understanding on the development of foreland basins, with reference to deep-marine environments, and compares a foreland basin system from the Canadian Appalachians (a remnant forearc in the Quebec Re-entrant) with a Late Ordovician-Early Silurian telescoping remnant marginal basin that because of a reversal in subduction polarity became a forearc associated with considerable sinistral oblique-slip. The ultimate demise of this latter system may have been as a foreland basin-fill that shallows up from deep-marine to shallow-marine and possibly subaerial environments.These Lower Palaeozoic case studies are discussed in the context of plate-tectonic models for the destruction of the Iapetus Ocean.

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Pickering, K.T. (1987). Deep-marine Foreland Basin and Forearc Sedimentation: a Comparative Study from the Lower Palaeozoic Northern Appalachians, Quebec and Newfoundland. In: Leggett, J.K., Zuffa, G.G. (eds) Marine Clastic Sedimentology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3241-8_10

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