Browse through the field trip guides from the project for in-person and virtual tours. They are free to download and use with appropriate acknowledgements and citations.
Major Field Trips – Nova Scotia, Iberia, Morocco
The purpose of the IGCP project was to bring together researchers working on both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean to discuss connections among northwest Africa, eastern North America and Iberia during the Paleozoic. The project is primarily focused on the crustal fragments of northwest African origin that are now located in eastern North America and Iberia, but also on fragments and traces of the microcontinent Avalonia that may exist in all three continents. The microcontinents of Cadomia (in Europe) and Meguma (in eastern North America) have been interpreted as having an at least partial NW African origin. Avalonia has Amazonian or West African, or perhaps Baltic, origin. Fragments of Avalonia now occupy parts of eastern North America and Europe (including Iberia), and likely NW Africa (northern Morocco). Rock types, structures, and natural resources may be correlated among northwest Africa, eastern North America and Iberia, and their origins can be much better understood if/when scientists who do research in these three areas work together, as they did in IGCP 683.
Virtual Field Trips
Eight virtual field trips (listed below with links) were prepared for the first IGCP 683 field trip, which was held from May 19 to May 23, 2022, after the Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada (GAC), Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC), the International Association of Hydrogeologists – Canadian National Committee (IAH-CNC), and the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (May 15-18, 2022). The purpose of the virtual field trips was to provide broader context for the in-person field trip, and to serve as a resource for future use for IGCP683 participants and beyond. Field trip locations are shown below, on a configuration of the continents at the time of Pangaea.
1– Mills, A. and Lowe, D. 2022. “Geology of the Bonavista Peninsula Newfoundland: A trail of discovery through the Ediacaran Musgravetown Group of Avalonia” . IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°1, 34p.
2– Jonhson, S.C. and Park, A. F. 2022. “The Caledonian Highlands, Avalonia in Southern New Brunswick, Geological comparisons and correlations among crustal blocks of Eastern North America, Northwestern Africa and Western Europe”. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°2, 33p.
3– Accotto, C., Martinez Poyatos, D., Azor, A. and Jabaloy-Sanchez, A. 2022. “The Eo-Variscan structures of the Eastern Moroccan Meseta (Debdou-Mekkam Region”. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°3, 17p.
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4- Simancas, F., Azor, A., Martinez Poyatos, D., Perez-Caceres, I., Exposito Ramos, I., Accotto, C. and Montero, P. 2022. “Structural record of terrane accretion in the SW Iberian Massif”. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°4, 12p.
5- Kuiper, Y.D. and Murray, D.P. 2022. “Possible crustal blocks of the Southeastern part of the New England Avalon terrane in the US Appalachians“. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°5, 36p.
6-Thompson, M.D. 2022. “Ediacaran bedrock geology of Greater Boston, Massachusetts: Elements of an Avalonian magmatic arc“. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°6, 15p.
7- Belkacim, S., Alahyane, M. and Bouabdellah, M. 2022. “Eastern and Central Anti-Atlas of Morocco“. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°7, 46p.
8– Reusch, D. and Strauss, J.V.. 2022. “Ganderia in New England: A virtual tour of the Penobscot Bay Inlier, Maine, USA“. IGCP683 Virtual Field Guide N°8, 20p.