“…The Labrador Sea -Baffin Bay system (here referred to as the NW Atlantic as in Abdelmalak et al, 2018) separated Greenland and North America (Vogt and Avery, 1974;Srivastava, 1978;Torsvik et al, 2002;Hosseinpour et al, 2013;Peace et al, 2016;Welford et al, 2018). Subsequently, the NE Atlantic began to open, separating Greenland and Europe (Talwani and Eldholm, 1977;Skogseid et al, 2000;Lundin and Doré, 2005b;Le Breton et al, 2012;Gaina et al, 2009;Gernigon et al, 2015;Gaina et al, 2017a;Gaina et al, 2017b;Schiffer et al, 2018;Foulger et al this volume). A complex junction exists between these branches to the north of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (CGFZ) (Gaina et al, 2009) (Fig.…”