Imaging the plate boundary between Greenland and North America within the Kane Basin by means of geophysical data

• Published in: Geophysical research letters Vol. 43; no. 15; pp. 7913 - 7920
• Main Authors: Ehrhardt, Axel, Schnabel, Michael, Damm, Volkmar, Piepjohn, Karsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 16.08.2016; Wiley
• Subjects: Age; Basins; Biological age; Boundaries; Cretaceous; Data; Data acquisition; Geological faults; Geophysical data; Geophysics; Imaging; Imaging techniques; Islands; Kane Basin, Nares Strait; Paleogene; Plate boundaries; Plates (structural members); potential geophysical data; Sedimentary basins; Seismic data; Seismological data; Straits; Transform faults; Waterways; North America; Nares Strait; Baffin Bay; Greenland; ANW, Canada, Nunavut, Ellesmere I; ANW, Atlantic, Baffin Bay, Nares Strait; ANW, Atlantic, Baffin Bay; AN, Greenland

The Nares Strait is a waterway separating NW Greenland and North America. The nature of the Nares Strait has been subject of discussion for decades, especially if it represents a transform fault that compensated the opening of the Baffin Bay in the Paleogene as Alfred Wegener supposed in 1912. The K...