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标题：Kennedy Channel and its geophysical lineaments: new evidence that the Wegener Fault is a myth
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作者：Thorkild M. Rasmussen ; Peter R. Dawes
期刊名称：Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：1604-8156
出版年度：2011
卷号：23
页码：69-72
语种：English
出版社：De Nationale Geologiske Undersoegelser for Danmark og Groenland
摘要：2010, the year under review, marks the centennial of perhapsthe most controversial structure in the Arctic: the WegenerFault, the 1000-km long fracture that is supposed to underlie Nares Strait and define the north-western margin of anindependent Greenland plate (Fig. 1). The seaway betweenGreenland and Ellesmere Island, Canada, was branded amegashear by Frank Taylor who, purely on physiographicexpression, postulated massive Tertiary strike-slip (Taylor1910). This revolutionary idea fittingly found a place in Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift and thereafter inplate-tectonic theory with Greenland drifting hundreds ofkilometres from North America along what Tuzo Wilsonsubsequently dubbed the ‘Wegener Fault’ (Wilson 1963).