Significant Places and Features for Global Tectonics (The Appalachians) - Quiz 8

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Avalonia
Baltic Shield
Cadomian basement
Carolina
"Central Mobile Belt"
Laurentian foreland
Meguma
North American Shield
Scandinavian foreland

Click on the red spot in one of the red boxes or Northern Appalachians, Southern Appalachians or British Isles to go to more details maps of these areas. Gold pins are "golden spikes" - the GSSPs (Global Boundary Stratotype Points) for the base of the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian are shown.

Detail of Northern Appalachians

Aspy Terrane
Avalon zone
Baie Verte-Brompton-Cameron Line
Bay of Islands Ophiolite
Bloody Bluff Fault
Bras d'Or Terrane
Bronson Hill Arc
Caledonia-Clover Hill Fault
Central Maine-Aroostook Belt
Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault System
Connecticut-Gaspé Belt
Dover-Hermitage Bay Fault
Exploits subzone
Gander River Ultrabasic Belt
Ganderia / Gander Zone
Humber Zone
Logan's Line
Meguma Terrane
Mira Terrane
Notre Dame subzone
Red Indian Line
St. Anthony Ophiolite
Tetagouche Belt

Detail of Southern Appalachians

Brevard Zone
Carolinia/Carolina Zone
Central Piedmont Suture Zone
Cumberland Zone
Goochland Zone
Laurentian inliers in Southern Appalachians
Mesozoic basins in Southern Appalachians
Piedmont Zone

Detail of British Caledonides

Anglesey
area of East Avalonian inliers
Ballantrae Ophiolite
Isle of Man
Grampian Highlands
Great Glen Fault
Highland Boundary Fault
Lake District
Leinster Terrane
Lewisian (+Torridonian)
Midland Valley (of Scotland)
Moine Thrust
Northwest Highlands
Shetland Islands
Solway Suture (Navan-Silvermines Fault)
Southern Uplands
Southern Uplands Boundary Fault
Tertiary Igneous Province
Welsh Basin

Places List for Map 7

Anglesey
Island on north coast of Wales, Monian Complex

Aspy Terrane
western Cape Breton Island

Avalonia / Avalon zone
complex belt of Neoproterozoic rocks extending from northern Europe to Portugal, southeastern Newfoundland, northern Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick, southeastern New England

Baie Verte-Brompton-Cameron Line
boundary between Dunnage and Humber zones in Newfoundland, Quebec and Vermont

Baltic Shield
Sweden, Finland, southern Norway

Bay of Islands Ophiolite
west coast of Newfoundland

Bloody Bluff Fault
boundary of Avalon zone in Massachusetts

Bras d'Or Terrane
central Cape Breton Island

Brevard Zone
thrust fault zone in S. US Piedmont zone

Bronson Hill Arc
Ordovician terrane in western New England

Cadomian basement
Neoproterozoic rocks of Brittany and Galicia, Spain

Caledonia-Clover Hill Fault
western boundary of Avalon zone in New Brunswick

Carolinia/Carolina Zone
eastern belt of southern Appalachians

Central Maine-Aroostook Belt
central Appalachians of New England and northwestern New Brunswick

Central Mobile Belt
name used for Dunnage (Exploits subzone) and Ganderia / Gander Zone units

Central Piedmont Suture Zone
boundary between Piedmont and Carolinia/Carolina Zones

Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault System
central Nova Scotia

Connecticut-Gaspé Belt
extending from Gaspé to Vermont and Connecticut

Cumberland Zone
fold and thrust belt on western side of southern Appalachians

Dover-Hermitage Bay Fault
eastern Newfoundland

Exploits subzone
central Newfoundland

Gander River Ultrabasic Belt
boundary between Ganderia / Gander Zone and Dunnage zone

Ganderia / Gander Zone
eastern Newfoundland

Goochland Zone
Virginia section of the southern Appalachians

Humber Zone
western margin of Appalachians

Laurentian foreland
westernmost belt of Appalachian, extending from southern USA to British Isles and Greenland, and also Laurentian inliers in Southern Appalachians

Logan's Line
northwestern margin of Appalachians

Meguma Terrane
southern Nova Scotia

Mesozoic basins in Southern Appalachians
mostly on the eastern side (Carolinia/Carolina Zone)

Mira Terrane
southeastern Cape Breton Island

North American Shield
Laurentia

Notre Dame subzone
western Newfoundland

Piedmont Zone
core of the southern Appalachians

Red Indian Line
central Newfoundland and northern Maine

St. Anthony Ophiolite
northern Newfoundland

Scandinavian foreland
eastern side of Iapetus

Tetagouche Belt
northern New Brunswick