MAGNETIC PROFILE ACROSS THE GRAND BANKS AND FLEMISH CAP OFF NEWFOUNDLAND

Abstract

This paper describes an aeromagnetic profile from Prince Edward Island, through the Cabot Strait to the Tail of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and subsequently over the Flemish Cap. It is inferred that Burgeo Bank off the southwest coast of Newfoundland is possibly a granite intrusion of Devonian age. A distinct magnetic anomaly, approximately 400 gammas in amplitude, appears to be associated with the edge of the continental shelf at the Tail of the Bank. A series of sharp shallow-source magnetic anomalies was recorded over the Flemish Cap, and this feature appears to have a negatively polarized core whose long dimension is oriented in a NNW.-SSE. direction.