The Germania Land deformation zone and related structures, North-east Greenland

Joseph M Hull; Jane A Gilotti

doi:10.34194/rapggu.v162.8253

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The Germania Land deformation zone and related structures, North-east Greenland

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The Germania Land deformation zone and related structures, North-east Greenland

Joseph M Hull and Jane A Gilotti

Rapport - Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse (1964), Vol.162, pp.113-127

1994

DOI: 10.34194/rapggu.v162.8253

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Abstract

The Germania Land deformation zone in North-East Greenland consists of two subparallel, NW-striking strands of mylonites and cataclasites. The quasiplastic mylonites formed under low grade (biotite zone) conditions following high grade Caledonian metamorphism. Displacements on the Germania Land deformation zone and parallel zones at Danmarkshavn were predominantly dextral strike slip. Along with the similar, but sinistral, Storstrømmen shear zone, these zones record a late Caledonian phase of orogen-parallel movement. The Germania Land deformation zone is also the locus of Carboniferous normal faulting and basin development.

Greenland

Structural Analysis

Structural Geology

Arctic region

basins

brittle deformation

Caledonian Orogeny

Carboniferous

cataclasis

cataclasites

Danmarkshaven Greenland

deformation

East Greenland

faults

Germania Land

gneisses

kinematics

lineation

metamorphic rocks

metamorphism

microstructure

mineral assemblages

mineral composition

mylonites

Northern Greenland

orogeny

Paleozoic

petrography

shear zones

Storstrommen shear zone

strike-slip faults

tectonite

transpression

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Title: Subtitle: The Germania Land deformation zone and related structures, North-east Greenland
Creators: Joseph M Hull - Seattle Central Community College, Division of Science & Mathematics Seattle, WA USA United States
Jane A Gilotti - New York State Museum USA United States
Contributors: A. K Higgins (Editor) - Geological Survey of Greenland Copenhagen DNK Denmark
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Rapport - Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse (1964), Vol.162, pp.113-127
DOI: 10.34194/rapggu.v162.8253
ISSN: 0418-6559
eISSN: 2597-2944
Publisher: Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse
Alternative title: Geology of North-east Greenland
Language: English
Date published: 1994
Academic Unit: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Record Identifier: 9984240791302771

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