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The Tourelle Formation of the Quebec Appalachians was deposited during the latest Arenig in one or more slope-basins situated on a migrating thrust stack (Hiscott et al. 1986). The thrust slices formed an accretionary prism that developed during subduction of the passive margin of Laurentia beneath an offshore volcanic arc (Hiscott 1978). The ultimate collision of this arc with Laurentia produced the Middle to Late Ordovician Taconic Orogeny. The sedimentary rocks in the thrust slices were first deposited on the passive-margin continental slope and continental rise of Laurentia, and subsequently scraped off the subducting plate and transferred to the accretionary prism. The prism loaded the edge of the Laurentian plate to produce an elongate foreland basin (Quinlan and Beaumont 1984; Hiscott et al. 1986).
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Hiscott, R.N., DeVries, M. (1995). Internal characteristics of sandbodies of the Ordovician Tourelle Formation, Quebec, Canada. In: Pickering, K.T., Hiscott, R.N., Kenyon, N.H., Ricci Lucchi, F., Smith, R.D.A. (eds) Atlas of Deep Water Environments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1234-5_30
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