scholarly journals Late Precambrian Igneous Activity and Its Tectonic Implications, Musquash - Loch Alva Region, southern New Brunswick

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
K L Currie
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Late Precambrian ◽  
Tectonic Implications ◽  
Igneous Activity

On the position of the Variscan front in southern New Brunswick and its relation to Precambrian basement

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Rast ◽  
K. L. Currie
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Precambrian Basement ◽  
Precambrian Rocks ◽  
Late Precambrian ◽  
Mylonite Zone

The Variscan front is marked by a zone of cataclasis that generally follows an older and larger mylonite zone, but locally cuts across relatively undeformed Precambrian rocks. The older mylonite zone probably developed in Late Precambrian (Avalonian) time. Correlative Precambrian rocks extend across both the Variscan front, and the Bellisle fault to the northwest.

Geochemistry of Siluro-Devonian Tobique volcanic belt in northern and central New Brunswick (Canada): tectonic implications

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1282-1296 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dostal ◽  
R. A. Wilson ◽  
J. D. Keppie
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Mantle Source ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Volcanic Belt ◽  
Continental Rift ◽  
Basaltic Rocks ◽  
Incompatible Elements ◽  
Tectonic Implications

Siluro-Devonian volcanic rocks of the northwestern mainland Appalachians are found mainly in the Tobique belt of New Brunswick where they consist predominantly of bimodal mafic–felsic suites erupted in a continental-rift environment. The axis of the Tobique rift trends north-northeast – south-southwest, obliquely to the regional northeast–southwest trend of the Appalachians. These geometric relationships are interpreted as being the result of rifting in a sinistral shear regime produced during emplacement of the Avalon terrene. The basaltic rocks are continental tholeiites and transitional basalts derived from a heterogeneous upper-mantle source that was enriched in incompatible elements relative to the primordial mantle. The mantle source was probably affected by the subduction processes.

scholarly journals A Brief Summary of the Late Precambrian Rocks in the Caledonia Highlands of Southeastern New Brunswick

10.4138/1437 ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Ruitenberg ◽  
P. S. Giles ◽  
D. V. Venugopal ◽  
S. R. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Precambrian Rocks ◽  
Late Precambrian
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