Index [Italic page numbers indicate major references] Benner Hill belt, 8,9, 17 accretion, 20, 28, 67, 68, 69, 85 Assemetquagan River area, 111 bentonite beds, 111 Cambrian, 72 Atlantic Realm, 45 Berwick Formation, 11, 52 Caradocian, 72 Atrypa reticularis, 48 Berwick quadrangle, 60 timing, 33 Avalon, 35 Bethlehem pluton, 15 Ackley batholith, 129 Avalon belt, 8, 11,77 Big Berry Mountains syncline, 116 alcids, 42 Avalon block, 19, 78, 80, 126, 130 Bigelow Brook fault complex, 10 Alleghenian Plateau province, 154 Avalon Composite Terrane, 44 Billings Fold, 56 Allegheny County, Maryland, 160 Avalon crust, 11 biogeography allochthons, 136, 148 Avalon island arc, 17 analysis, 43 Allsbury Formation, 75 Avalon superterrane, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 Cambrian, 41, 44, 47 Alto allochthon, 14 Avalon terrane, 20, 28 Carboniferous, 41, 44, 47 Alton quadrangle, 56, 58, 60 Avalon Zone, 15, 102, 126, 128, 129, bioherms, 109 American Cordillera, 67 130, 148 biostromes, 109 Amity quadrangle, 75 Awantjish Formation, 110 biotite, 58, 129, 139, 146, 148 amphibolites, 9, 106, 129 Aylmer Pluton, 95 Black-Cape Volcanics, 109 andalusites, 63,64, 129 blocks, 20, 35,67, 78, 130, 131 Angers-Dugal Outcrop Belt, 110 backfolds, 64 basement, 78 Angola member, 157 Badger Bay area, 32 continental, 32 Annapolis Valley region, 48 Baie Verte, 130 Blue Hills Nappe, 60 Annieopsquotch Complex, 36 Baie Verte-Brompton Line, 28, 86, 87, Blue Ridge, 14 Anse Cascon Formation, 109 106,117,136 Ansea Pierre-Loiselle Formation, 109 Baie Verte Flexure, 128 Bonaventure Formation, 109 anticlines, 141 Baie Verte Peninsula, 128, 129, 139, Bonnie Bay region, 144 anticlinoria, 8, 51 146 Boston area, 44 Antigonish County, 44, 45 Bailiella, 44 Boston Avalon block, 11 Appalachian basin, 154 Balmoral Group, 118 Boston Basin, 28 autochthonous, 153 Baltic Realm, 44, 47 Boston terrane, 19 Appalachian-Caledonian orogen, 28, faunas, 45 Botwood Group, 32, 34. 35, 37, 128 135 Baltica, 17 boudins, 58 Appalachian Mountains basalt, 31, 71, 80 Boundary Mountain anticlinorium, 6 central, 2 pillow, 31, 69,71 Boundary Mountain antiform, 75 northern. 2, 5, 12, 15, 16, 17, 27,43, basement Boundary Mountain block, 78, 80 47, 56,67,78, 80. 102 Cambro-Ordovician, 106 Boundary Mountain terrane, 6 south-central, 13 crystalline, 136 Bowers Mountain Formation, 69, 74 southern, 2, 19 basins brachiopods, 107, 109 Appalachian orogen, 13 back-arc, 31, 37, 96 Bras d'Or terrane, 130 Appledore Diorite, 10 depositional, 80 breccia, 31,76, 87, 114 arches, 154 filling, 112 Brevard fault zone, 14 arcs forearc, 86, 106 British Caledonides, 12 British Isles, 13, 17 island, 31, 68 foreland, 136, 153, 154,156,159, 161 Brompton-Cameron Terrane, 52 volcanic, 35, 96 intraplate, 77 Bronson Hill anticlinorium, 6, 52, 60 Armorica, 17 marine, 113 Bronson Hill belt, 6, 8, 10 Armorican massif, 19 ocean, 35, 37, 68, 77, 80 Bronson Hill island arc, 6 Armorican-Nova Scotian Acadian- sedimentary, 72 Burgeo pluton, 129 Ligerian orogenic belt, 19 See also specific basins Burgeo type, 130 Armorican Peninsula, 13, 18 Baskahegan Lake Formation, 69, 74 Aroostook-Matapedia basin, 80 Bassin Nord-Ouest fault, 115 Burnt Jam Brook Formation, 110, 111 Aroostook-Matapedia belt, 8, 75, 77 batholiths, 129 Byrne Cove Mélange, 33 southern lobe, 73 Battery Point Formation, 111 Aroostook-Perce anticlinorium, 102, Bay du Nord Group, 129 Cabot Fault System, 136 106, 110, 111, 114. 115, 116, 118 Bay of Islands complex, 141, 144 Calais Formation, 69, 71 Arsenault area, 118 Bay St. George basin, 136 calcarenites, 75, 109. 111, 112 Arsenault Formation, 106, 107 Bear Pond Rhyolite, 138 calcilutites, 107, 109, 110 Ascot Complex, 85, 87, 89, 94, 97 Beauce area, 85, 88, 93, 95, 96, 97 calc-mylonite, 94 Ascot volcanic belt, 89 Beauceville Formation, 89, 91, 95 calc-silicate, 58 Ascot volcanics, 96 bedding, 58 calderas, 129 ash deposits, 109 Belchertown pluton, 64 Caldwell Group, 87,96 ash layers, volcanic, 156 Belle Isle fault, 8 Caledonian, late, 2 ashflows, 76 Belleoram Granite, 124 Caledonian Belt, 56 Ashgillian, 73 belts, 7, 17, 20, 68 Caledonian orogeny, 13 Aspy terrane, 130 supracrustal, 69 defined, 2, 17 165 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/957755/spe275-bm.pdf by guest on 28 September 2021 166 Index Cambrian, 41, 44, 69, 72 Climacograptus spiniferus Zone, 108, Cambro-Ordovician, 106 deformation, 8, 10, 11, 52, 72, 116, 119, 118 124, 125, 127, 130, 141, 143, 148 Campbell Hill-Nonesuch River fault climatic gradients, global, 46, 48 zone, 52, 60 Acadian, 51, 85, 95 Clinton-Newbury fault, 11 Alleghanian, 136 Canadian Appalachians, 16, 17, 102 Cloridorme Formation, 118 Canterbury Basin, 47 episodes, 87 coal swamps, 47 Late Ordo vician, 114 Cape Breton Island. 11, 44 Coastal Acadia, 43, 46, 47 Cape Elizabeth Formation, 9 mechanisms, 56 Coastal Maine zone, 11 mid-Devonian, 114 Cape George area, 45 Coastal Volcanic belt, 76, 80, 81 Cape Ray, 124, 128, 129 periods, 60, 64 Cobequid-Chedabucto fault system regional, 28, 85 Cape St. John Group, 128, 129 117 Caradocian, 69, 72 Taconian, 136 collision, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 118. 119 timing, 63, 101 carbonates, 56, 136, 138, 141, 144 156 continent-continent, 20, 28 Delmar deformation, 19 160 continent-volcanic arc, 96 detritus, 73,75,81, 130, 138, 160 platform, 145 island arc, 85 Devils Room granite, 129, 138 sedimentation, 48 Concord, New Hampshire quadrangle Devonian, 46 Carboniferous, 41, 46 56,60 Early, 56, 73 Cardigan Pluton, 63 Concord plutonic suite, 14 mid-. 101, 114 Carolina block. 19 early, 63 Dicoelosia sp., 48 Carolina Slate Belt, 44 Concord Tectonic Zone, 56 Digdeguash Formation, 76 Carolina terrane, 19 Coney Head, 144 disconformity, 47 Carrabassett Formation, 75 conglomerate, 34, 58, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76 discontinuities, 60, 78 Carys Mills Formation, 75 93, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 130 Dog River fault zone, 6 Casco Bay area, 9 assemblage, 111 domains Casco Bay belt, 8, 9 Connecticut Valley-Gaspé belt, 5, 6 Casco Bay Group, 9 external nappe, 106 75, 80 Cashaqua Member, 157 internal nappe, 106 Connecticut Valley-Gaspé-Notre Castine Formation, 76 parautochthon, 106 Dame belt, 6 Castor River, 143 tectonic, 106 Connecticut Valley-Gaspé Catamaran fault, 117 tectonostratigraphic, 110 Synclinorium. 5, 86, 102, 106,110 Catskill Delta, 48, 156, 159, 160 Dome-Crescent-Mushroom pattern, 63 Celtic unit, 45 113, 114, 115, 116 Dover Fault, 28, 36, 128 Connecticut Valley belt, 6 Central block, 78, 80, 126, 129, 130 Dunn Point Formation, 33 Connecticut Valley trough. 5 Dunnage belt, 11 Central Maine basin, 80 conodonts, 107, 109 Central Maine Boundary Fault, 75 Dunnage Zone, 5, 17, 85, 87, 96, 97 continental crust, 119 102,106, 109, 117, 118, 126, 128, Central Maine Terrane, 52, 56, 60, 62 continental drift, 13 Central Mobile Belt, 11, 15, 17, 28 35 129, 130, 136, 147 continental margin, 76, 130, 136, 161 dykes, felsic, 114 37 convergence, 80, 118, 162 Central New Hampshire anticlinorium Cookson Group, 69, 71 East Pond suite, 139, 148 52, 56, 60, 62, 63 Cookson Island, 76 Chain Lakes Massif, 6, 72. 78, 80. 96 Eastern Americas Realm, 46, 47 corals, 34, 46, 74 Eastern Townships, 106 Chalceurs Group package, 108 Cornish nappe sequence, 60 Chaleur Bay, 8. 119 Eastport, Maine, 76 Costislrophonella punctulifera, 48 Eastport Formation, 47, 48 Chaleur Bay succession, 8 Cottrell's Cove Group. 31 Chaleurs Bay synclinorium. 102, 108 elements, light rare earth (LREE), 80 cover, subaerial, 32, 35 Eliot Formation, 52 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118 Cranbourne Formation, 96 Ellen Wood Ridge Formation, 73 74 Chaleurs Group, 102, 107, 108, 109 crust 75 111, 113, 118 continental, 119 Ellsworth belt, 8 Chanceport Group, 31, 32, 33 lower, 11 Change Islands, 33, 34, 35 Emsian, 56 oceanic, 19, 31, 36, 67, 78, 80, 86 erosion, 13, 111, 160 Charlotte belt. 14 136 Chase Brook Formation, 69 Escuminac Formation, 48, 102, 108 rupture, 154 110, 113 Chaudière River area. 93 thickening, 145 cherts, 71 Esopus shale, 156 upper, 78 European Province, 46 Chinese Realm, 44 Cumberland fault, 89, 91, 95 European Realm, 44. 45 chlorite, 75 currents, turbidity, 8 Eustis domain, 87 Cincinnati arch system, 153 Cushing Formation, 9 evaporites, 47 Cinq Isles Formation, 124, 130 evolution Clam Bank Group, 123, 128, 130 138 Daggett Ridge Formation, 74, 75 Ordovician, 27 144, 148 Dalejina sp., 48 Silurian, 27 clastics. 56, 85 DalHousie Formation, 109 tectonic, 68 clasts, 58, 73, 74, 75. 107, 110 Danforth quadrangle, 75 Exploits-Meelpaeg subzone boundary claystone, 107, 110 Dashwoods subzone, 126. 129 128 cleavage, 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 16, 33, 62, 85 Deblois granite pluton, 8 87. 89.90,91,95,96, 110, 116, Exploits Subzone, 35, 126, 128, 130 debris, 81 extension, 80 119, 141, 143 décollement, 60 Clemville Formation, 109 Deer Lake, 145 facies Cleveland Shale, 160 Deer Lake Basin, 138 amphibolite, 128, 138, 141, 146 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/957755/spe275-bm.pdf by guest on 28 September 2021 Index 167 carbonate, 102 Gaspé Peninsuladian orogeny, 101 Hermitage Flexure, 128 greenschist, 128, 138, 139, 146 Gaspé Sandstones, 111 Hirnantia, 47 siliciclastic, 102, 110 Gaspé Sandstones Group, 102, 108, history, accretionary, 27 subgreenschist, 146 112, 113 Honorat Formation, 5 Famine Formation, 93, 94 Gaspé segment, 102 Honorat Group, 102,107. 112, 116, 118 faults, 114 Gaspésie, 96 Honorat-Matapédia Group package, bedding-parallel, 33 Gastonguay anticline, 110, 116 108 extensional, 144, 145 Gastonguay fault. 115 Hope Valley block, 19 normal, 73, 114. 119 Gedinnian, 56 hornblende, 139, 146, 148 oblique-slip, 115 Genesee Formation, 157, 159 Horton Group, 48 premetamorphic, 8 Genesee shale, 154, 161 hot spots, 15, 56, 63 reverse, 87, 88,97, 114, 115, 127 geology, structural, 58 Houlton area, 75 sinistral, 18, 19, 20 geometry, 63 Humber Arm Allochthon, 28, 36, 128, strike-slip, 11, 73, 93, 95, 97, 114, Gilmanton quadrangle, 63 136,141, 143 117, 119 glaciation, 160 Humber Arm region, 138 thrust, 52, 60, 73,75,89,93, 115, gneiss, 10, 15, 19, 129, 139 Humber Zone, 15, 28, 85, 96, 102,106.