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The geologic strip-map for Transect E-l cuts a swath from the Thousand Islands region on the New York-Ontario border to the Atlantic Ocean floor off Georges Bank (see Fig. 1). It includes portions of New York, Ontario and of all of the New England states. The western part, mainly in New York, belongs to the North American craton. The remainder of the onland portion, east of Logan's Line, belongs to the Appalachian Orogen.

Southeastward from Logan's Line the transect crosses a series of distinctive terranes. Several of these terranes are believed to be exotic, and to have been accreted to the North American craton during the Paleozoic. Superposed on these are several grabens and half-grabens containing early Mesozoic sediments and mafic volcanics. There are also Mesozoic eruptive complexes of an alkalic nature cutting across the Appalachian Orogen from southern Quebec, across New England, and continuing as a chain of seamounts offshore. Cenozoic rocks are limited to a small, but significant occurrence near Brandon, Vermont (BL on Fig. 2) and a few occurrences in the Cape Cod region and on the adjacent islands in southeastern Massachusetts.

Offshore the corridor passes over the Gulf of Maine and Long Island Platforms, thence across Georges Bank and into the North Atlantic Basin. The Gulf of Maine and Long Island Platforms (Fig. 2) are underlain by Paleozoic metamorphic and plutonic rocks and early Mesozoic grabens, as in the adjacent onland regions, but are partially covered offshore by a 1-3 km section of late Mesozoic and

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