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Table of Contents - Memoir 202 (MWR202)

The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia

edited by A.K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, and M. Paul Smith


Introduction—The Caledonides of Greenland
Niels Henriksen, A.K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, and M. Paul Smith
1. Geological research and mapping in the Caledonian orogen of East Greenland, 70°N–82°N
Niels Henriksen and A.K. Higgins
2. Architecture and evolution of the East Greenland Caledonides—An introduction
A.K. Higgins and A. Graham Leslie
3. Polyorogenic history of the East Greenland Caledonides
Feiko Kalsbeek, Kristine Thrane, A.K. Higgins, Hans F. Jepsen, A. Graham Leslie, Allen P. Nutman, and Robert Frei
4. Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic successions in the northern parts of the East Greenland Caledonian orogen and its foreland
John D. Collinson, Feiko Kalsbeek, Hans F. Jepsen, Stig A.S. Pedersen, and Brian G.J. Upton
5. Neoproterozoic sedimentary basins with glacigenic deposits of the East Greenland Caledonides
Martin Sønderholm, Kasper S. Frederiksen, M. Paul Smith, and Henrik Tirsgaard
6. Cambrian–Silurian development of the Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean in Greenland and related areas
M. Paul Smith and Jan Audun Rasmussen
7. Foreland-propagating Caledonian thrust systems in East Greenland
A. Graham Leslie and A.K. Higgins
8. Caledonian metamorphic patterns in Greenland
Jane A. Gilotti, Kevin A. Jones, and Synnøve Elvevold
9. Granites and granites in the East Greenland Caledonides
Feiko Kalsbeek, A.K. Higgins, Hans F. Jepsen, Robert Frei, and Allen P. Nutman
10. Geometry, kinematics, and timing of extensional faulting in the Greenland Caledonides—A synthesis
Jane A. Gilotti and William C. McClelland
11. The Devonian basin in East Greenland—Review of basin evolution and vertebrate assemblages
Poul-Henrik Larsen, Henrik Olsen, and Jennifer A. Clack
12. Mineral occurrences in central East Greenland (70°N–75°N) and their relation to the Caledonian orogeny—A Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic study of scheelite
Henrik Stendal and Robert Frei
13. Laurentian margin evolution and the Caledonian orogeny—A template for Scotland and East Greenland
A. Graham Leslie, Martin Smith, and N.J. Soper
14. Caledonian orogen of East Greenland 70°N–82°N: Geological map at 1:1,000,000—Concepts and principles of compilation
Niels Henriksen and A.K. Higgins