Champlain Thrust
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champlain-thrust-223-2866171
title:
Champlain Thrust
text:
The Champlain Thrust is a 200-mile long fault extending from southern Quebec, down through western Vermont in the Champlain Valley, and into eastern New York in the Catskills/Hudson Valley. This east dipping thrust fault transports Cambrian-Ordovician passive margin shelf rocks westward by about 30–50 miles (48–80 km) and places them on top of Middle Ordovician rocks. The Middle Ordovician accretion of the one or more island arcs terranes drove the initial thrusting during the Taconic Orogeny, t
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description:
Fault in Quebec, Vermont, and New York
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Thrust
date created:
2007-11-25T05:31:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T04:14:00Z
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13
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