scholarly journals Geology and U-Pb geochronology of low-grade mafic rocks from the St. Cyr klippe and a marble from the footwall, Canadian Cordillera, Yukon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S J Isard ◽  
J A Gilotti ◽  
W C McClelland ◽  
M B Petrie ◽  
C R van Staal
Keyword(s):  
Low Grade ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Mafic Rocks

Zircon ages and the distribution of Archaean and Proterozoic rocks in the Rauer Islands

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Kinny ◽  
L. P. Black ◽  
J. W. Sheraton
Keyword(s):  
Granulite Facies ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Ion Microprobe ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Mafic Rocks ◽  
Grade Fluid ◽  
Vestfold Hills ◽  
Intrusive Suite

The application of zircon U-Pb geochronology using the SHRIMP ion microprobe to the Precambrian high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Rauer Islands on the Prydz Bay coast of East Antarctica, has resulted in major revisions to the interpreted geological history. Large tracts of granitic orthogneisses, previously considered to be mostly Proterozoic in age, are shown here to be Archaean, with crystallization ages of 3270 Ma and 2800 Ma. These rocks and associated granulite-facies mafic rocks and paragneisses account for up to 50% of exposures in the Rauer Islands. Unlike the 2500 Ma rocks in the nearby Vestfold Hills which were cratonized soon after formation, the Rauer Islands rocks were reworked at about 1000 Ma under granulite to amphibolite facies conditions, and mixed with newly generated felsic crust. Dating of components of this felsic intrusive suite indicates that this Proterozoic reworking was accomplished in about 30–40 million years. Low-grade retrogression at 500 Ma was accompanied by brittle shearing, pegmatite injection, partial resetting of U-Pb geochronometers and growth of new zircons. Minor underformed lamprophyre dykes intruded Hop and nearby islands later in the Phanerozoic. Thus, the geology of the Rauer Islands reflects reworking and juxtaposition of unrelated rocks in a Proterozoic orogenic belt, and illustrates the important influence of relatively low-grade fluid-rock interaction on zircon U-Pb systematics in high-grade terranes.

U–Pb geochronology of the Bokan Mountain peralkaline granite, southeastern Alaska

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno de Saint-Andre ◽  
Joël R. Lancelot ◽  
Bernard Collot
Keyword(s):  
Low Grade ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Magmatic Activity ◽  
Magmatic Evolution ◽  
Peralkaline Granite ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Acid Wash ◽  
Concordia Diagram

The Bokan Mountain arfvedsonite–aegirine granite is the only peralkaline acid intrusion actually known on the margin of the Canadian Cordillera. It is the end product of a peralkaline magmatic evolution and is characterized by genetically associated concentrations of U and Th. The U–Pb method on zircons has been used to date two samples: one from a barren peralkaline granite and one from a low-grade U–Th mineralized albitite. A typological study has revealed two genetically different populations of zircons in the barren granite. The upper intercept age of 171 ± 5 Ma obtained on a concordia diagram dates the emplacement of the peralkaline granite. Acid wash experiments on zircons have allowed us to remove important quantities of common lead; this point is discussed as well as the abnormally low Pb content of the feldspar extracted from the barren granite.A Jurassic period of magmatic activity must be integrated into the geological history of Prince of Wales Island. Peralkaline magmatism may have occurred when the Alexander Terrane rifted away from its more southerly area of origin.

Early Cambrian back-arc volcanism in the western Taurides, Turkey: implications for rifting along the northern Gondwanan margin

2005 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. GÜRSU ◽  
M. C. GÖNCÜOGLU
Keyword(s):  
Oceanic Lithosphere ◽  
Tholeiitic Basalt ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
Spinel Lherzolite ◽  
Mafic Rocks ◽  
Clastic Rocks ◽  
Back Arc

The Lower Cambrian (Tommotian) Gögebakan Formation in western Central Anatolia is made up of slightly metamorphosed continental to shallow marine clastic rocks with pillowed and massive spilitic lavas and dolerite dykes. Spilitic lavas, commonly amygdaloidal, are albite- and pyroxene-phyric with the metamorphic mineral paragenesis albite+calcite+sericite±epidote±tremolite±chlorite. Dolerite dykes mainly include plagioclase and pyroxene as primary minerals and tremolite±epidote±chlorite as low-grade secondary minerals. Geochemical data show that the spilitic lavas and dolerite dykes are sub-alkaline, of oceanic tholeiitic basalt character and display a tholeiitic fractional trend, characterized by an increase in FeO/MgO and Zr and TiO2 in variation diagrams. They are characterized by relatively high Zr/Y (2–4.5), relatively high Th/Yb (0.15–1.0) and La/Nb (0.5–2.5). Both show marked negative Nb and Ti anomalies relative to Th and La (Ce), implying a subduction-related chemistry. Chondrite-normalized REE patterns display slight enrichment of light REE (spilitic lavas (La/Yb)N = 0.79–1.56; dolerite dykes (La/Yb)N = 0.89–3.50) fairly comparable with MORB. The geochemical similarity of the spilitic lavas and dolerite dykes suggests a co-genetic origin. La/Nb ratios of both types are slightly higher than average MORB values and were possibly formed in the early stages of back-arc basin development. Petrogenetic modelling suggests the mafic rocks of the formation were formed by 9% batch melting of spinel lherzolite in shallower depths (c. 60 km). Taken together the data suggest that the Early Cambrian mafic rocks of the Taurus units were developed in a back-arc basin along the northern edge of Gondwana above the southward-subducting oceanic lithosphere and may represent initial rifting that resulted in separation of the peri-Gondwanan terranes.

Low grade metamorphism of mafic rocks

1995 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schiffman
Keyword(s):  
Low Grade ◽  
Mafic Rocks ◽  
Grade Metamorphism

Superimposed low-grade metamorphism in the Mount Fisher area, southeastern British Columbia—implications for the East Kootenay orogeny

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. McMechan ◽  
R. A. Price
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Regional Metamorphism ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Windermere Supergroup ◽  
Granitic Intrusion ◽  
Block Faulting ◽  
Middle Proterozoic

Middle Proterozoic (~1500–1350 Ma) Belt–Purcell strata exposed in the Purcell and southwestern Rocky Mountains were affected by at least three distinct episodes of deformation and regional metamorphism. The oldest episode (1300–1350 Ma) apparently terminated Belt–Purcell sedimentation and involved folding, regional metamorphism, and granitic intrusion. The second episode (800–900 Ma) occurred during deposition of the Windermere Supergroup and involved uplift, block faulting, and low-grade regional metamorphism. Mesozoic–Cenozoic metamorphism, deformation, and plutonism overprinted the results of the earlier deformation and metamorphism.Illite crystallinity and muscovite polymorph ratios indicate that Purcell strata in the Mount Fisher area are in the lower green-schist to prehnite–pumpellyite facies of regional metamorphism. In the Steeples and Fisher blocks this metamorphism is related to structures that formed during the Late Cretaceous – Paleocene deformation. However, in the Sand Creek block the regional metamorphism is related to the development of a spaced cleavage that is folded by a Late Cretaceous – Paleocene nappe. Regional considerations suggest that this cleavage formed during the 1300–1350 Ma episode of deformation and metamorphism.The "East Kootenay orogeny" as currently defined embraces the two older episodes of tectonism. It is proposed that the term East Kootenay orogeny be restricted to designate the 1300–1350 Ma episode and that the term "Goat River orogeny" designate the 800–900 Ma episode of tectonism. The East Kootenay and Goat River orogenies appear to be correlative with the Racklan and Hayhook orogenies recognized in the northern Canadian Cordillera.

Paleomagnetic evidence for displacement from the south of the Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Irving ◽  
G. J. Woodsworth ◽  
P. J. Wynne ◽  
A. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Lateral Displacement ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Western Cordillera ◽  
Plutonic Complex ◽  
Coast Plutonic Complex

The mid-Cretaceous Spuzzum and Porteau plutons of the Coast Plutonic Complex of British Columbia have two magnetizations, A and B. The A magnetization (eight sites, 83 specimens, D = 30.3°, I = 56.7°, α95 = 4.9°, paleolatitude = 37 ± 5°N, paleopole 65.0°N, 14.9°W, A95 = 6.2°) is considered to have been acquired in the age range 105–90 Ma. This result differs from the field established for cratonic North America in this time range. The difference could be caused either by previously undetected tilting about a horizontal axis of the plutons, or by their rotation about a vertical axis and lateral displacement relative to the craton. Previously observed mid-Cretaceous magnetizations from other rock units from the western Canadian Cordillera and the Cascades of Washington, United States, are similarly discordant with respect to the craton. This similarity over such a large area indicates that, although local undetected tilting could be partly responsible, it is unlikely to be the prime cause, and we argue therefore that lateral displacement and rotation have occurred. It would seem that much of the western part of the Canadian Cordillera has moved north by about 2400 km and rotated clockwise since the mid-Cretaceous. The paleolatitude of the southern Coast Plutonic Complex of British Columbia is statistically identical to that recently observed (39 ± 3°N) for three plutons from the Central Sierra Nevada of California, which raises the possibility that the two complexes were much closer together at the time of their emplacement than at present. The second magnetization called B (four sites, 27 specimens, D = 5.1°, I = 67.6°, α95 = 4.7°, paleopole 86.5°N, 51.2°W) is parallel to the mid-Tertiary field, as previously determined from nearby intrusions, and is considered to be an overprint acquired during regional heating and low-grade metasomatism. Some earlier paleomagnetic studies of mid-Cretaceous rocks from the Coast Plutonic Complex indicated either an absence of displacement or uncertain evidence for it, and we attribute this to the nonrecognition, in this earlier work, of similar magnetically stable overprints of Tertiary age. Overprints in several Triassic rock units in the western Cordillera are parallel to the A magnetization, indicating that the mid-Cretaceous and the mid-Tertiary probably were periods of severe magnetic overprinting in British Columbia. Mid-Cretaceous and Late Triassic results from the western Cordillera of British Columbia are systematically different, indicating that movements relative to the craton occurred between these times.

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