faille Logan

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1991

  Note :

  The name commemorates its discovery by Logan (1863) near Quebec City. For part of its distance the line is a major low-angle thrust fault, but northeast of Quebec City it is beneath the St. Lawrence River and its nature is undetermined; southward in Vermont the frontal fault changes into a succession of discontinuous breaks. It is interpreted by many geologists as having been formed during the Taconic Orogeny.

  Termes :

  1. Logan's Line
  2. Logan's line