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DE GEER1 in 1926 first referred to the existence of a physiographic lineament following the western continental slope of the Barents Shelf from Norway to Svalbard, then running along the north-eastern continental slope of Greenland and Canada. Subsequent authors2,3 suggested that extensive dextral strike slip movements had occurred along this line during the continental drift of Greenland and North America away from Eurasia.
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HORSFIELD, W., MATON, P. Transform Faulting along the De Geer Line. Nature 226, 256–257 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226256a0
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