The Baie Verte -Brompton Line (BBL), the surface expression of the Taconian suture in the Canadian Appalachian Orogen, extends from southern Quebec to the northeast end of Newfoundland. In the Quebec Appalachians, the BBL was previously located under the post-Taconian cover rocks between the Eastern Townships and Gasp6 Peninsula. New geological data and reinterpretation of gravimetric and aeromagnetic data suggest that the BBL follows the southern edge of the Cambrian-Ordovician rocks of northern Gasp6 Peninsula and is displaced by Middle Devonian strike-slip faults on the southern part of the peninsula. On a pre-Middle Devonian palinspastic map, the BBL is parallel to the Quebec Reentrant -St. Lawrence Promontory and the Appalachian structural front.La ligne Baie Verte -Brompton (BBL), I'expression en surface de la suture taconienne des Appalaches canadiemes, s'Ctend du sud du QuCbec jusqu'i l'extrtmitt nord-est de Terre-Neuve. Dans les Appalaches quCbCcoises, la BBL Ctait auparavant tracke sous les roches de couverture post-taconienne entre 1'Estrie et la pCninsule de GaspCsie. Des nouvelles donnCes gCologiques, de mCme qu'une rCinterprCtation des donnCes gravimktriques et aCromagnCtiques de la GaspCsie, suggkrent que la BBL suit la marge sud des roches cambriennes-ordoviciennes du nord de la GaspCsie et est dCplacCe par des failles coulissantes du dkvonien moyen dans le sud de la ptninsule. Une reconstruction palinspastique prC-coulissage dCvonien moyen de la BBL montre qu'elle est parallkle au rkentrant de QuCbec et au promontoire du Saint-Laurent, de mCme qu'au front structural appalachien.
This contribution provides an overview of the geological setting, stratigraphy, tectono-sedimentary evolution, and paleogeography of the post-Taconian-pre-Carboniferous sequence of the Gasp6 Belt. The sequence has been shaped by two tectonic pulses: the Salinic disturbance that began during the Early Silurian (Telychian) and persisted until the Early Devonian (Pragian), and the ensuing Acadian Orogeny in the Early to Mid-Devonian (Emsian-Eifelian).The shelf and shelf-edge history at the Laurentian margin along the Qurbec Re-entrant-St. Lawrence Promontory can be summarized in five broad phases that resulted from the interplay of tectonics and sea-level change. Phase 1 is a Llandoverian-Wenlockian regressive phase (R~) related to post-Taconian successor basin infilling, which culminated in extensive carbonate platform development. Phase 2 is a late Wenlockian-Ludlovian transgressive phase (T~). Phase 3 corresponds to a later Ludlovian-Pridolian second regressive phase (R2). Phases 2 and 3 were accompanied by extension faulting, block tilting, and the development of reefs, reef complexes and reef tracts along the Gaspr-Trmiscouata shelf. Phase 4 is an Early Devonian phase of accelerated subsidence (transgression T2) affecting the northwestern part (Qurbec Re-entrant area), while the southeastern part (St-Lawrence Promontory area) was previously uplifted as a result of Laurentia colliding with the western margin of Gondwana-related terranes to the south. Phase 5 is the final regression (R3) related to the Acadian Orogeny.
RI~SUMI~Cet article pr6sente une vue d'ensemble du contexte grologique, de la stratigraphie, de l'6volution tectono-s6di-mentaire et de la pal6ogrographie de la s6quence post-taconienne h prr-carboniff'ere de la Ceinture de Gasp6sie. I1 se veut un cadre auquel les articles de ce numrro sp6cial des bulletins de la Canadian Petroleum Geology pourront se rattacher. La srquence a 6t6 modelres par deux pulsations tectoniques: la pulsation salinique qui a commenc6 au Tdlychien (Silurien pr6coce) et qui s'est poursuivie jusqu'au Praguien (Drvonien prdcoce); et l'orog6nie acadienne qui a suivi et qui a agi de l'Emsien ~t l'Eifelien (Drvonien pr6coce et moyen). L'histoire du plateau marin et de sa marge, adjacents h Laurentia le long du rrentrant de Qurbec et du promontoire du Saint-Laurent, se rrsume selon cinq grandes phases rrsultant de l'interaction entre la tectonique et les fluctuations du niveau marin. La phase 1 correspond ~t une phase rrgressive (R1) au Llandovrrien-Wenlockien, relire au remplissage du bassin successeur post-taconien; elle a culmin6 avec le d6veloppement d'une plate-forme calcaire tr~s 6tendue. La phase 2 est une phase transgressive (T1) qui eut lieu h la fin du Wenlockien-Ludlovien, alors que la phase 3 correspond ~t une seconde rrgression (R2) h la fin du Ludlovien-Pridolien. Ces deux derni~res phases ont 6t6 accompagn6es d'une tectonique d'extension qui a dissrqu6 le plateau en blocs basculrs sur lesquels se sont implant6s et d6velopp6s J GIRGAB. Groupe interuniversitaire de Rec...
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