The Paleomagnetism of Kaminak Dikes—No Evidence of Significant Hudsonian Plate Motion

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 2048-2064 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Christie ◽  
A. Davidson ◽  
W. F. Fahrig
Keyword(s):  
Pole Position ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Plate Motion ◽  
Paleomagnetic Study

A paleomagnetic study was done on 28 diabase and 6 lamprophyre dikes from the vicinity of Kaminak Lake in the District of Keewatin. These dikes are Proterozoic and cut across an area of Archean rocks. Their metamorphic grade within this region varies from nil to amphibolite facies. Two stable magnetization directions were obtained from the diabase on AF demagnetization; one from 3 unmetamorphosed diabase dikes of D = 205°, I = 3°, α95 = 24°, with a corresponding pole position at 23.8 °S, 122.3 °W, α95 = 16.5°; the other from the metamorphosed diabase of D = 176°,I = 65°, α95 = 4°, with pole position at 20.4 °N, 92.1 °W, = 6.1°. The first is believed to be thermoremanent and approximately 2300 Ma old, while the second is a metamorphic direction of approximately 1800 Ma. The six lamprophyres give a stable remanence of D = 174°, I = 78°, α9S = 10°, with a pole position at 40.9 °N, 92.8 °W, α95 = 17°, essentially the same as the metamorphosed diabase.A number of samples were also thermally demagnetized. Most of the results obtained were the same as those obtained from the AF treatment. However, one diabase site gave a direction similar to that obtained from the 3 unaltered dikes, and one of the lamprophyres showed a reversal.The pole position of the altered Kaminak diabase relative to that for the unconformably overlying Dubawnt Group suggests that the polar wandering curve for this part of the Aphebian may be more complex than previously thought. It is quite probable that the earlier Aphebian pole positions (Matachewan, Nipissing), as usually plotted, are actually antipodal points in terms of the polar wandering curve.

Metamorphic Grade and Iron-Magnesium Distribution between Co-Existing Garnet-Biotite and Garnet-Hornblende

1962 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 427-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Coefficient ◽  
Standard Error ◽  
Lower Boundary ◽  
Estimating Equation ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Temperature Range

AbstractIt is shown that in the two mineral pairs discussed the metamorphic grade can be estimated from the atomic ratios (Xa = Mg/Mg + Fe + 0·175 Mn + 0·360 Ca) in garnet and Xb = Mg/(Mg + Fe) in the other mineral. The standard error of the estimation is about one-third of the temperature range of the amphibolite facies.Where M is the metamorphic grade on an arbitrary scale, in which the lower boundary of the amphibolite facies is at 4·2 and the upper at 5·1, and K is the distribution coefficient (Xb—XaXb)/(Xa—XaXb), then the estimating equation is M = 5·6 — 1·5 log10 K.

scholarly journals On some pre-Cambrian metadolerites from the central Ivigtut region SW Greenland

1965 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
E Bondesen ◽  
N Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zones ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
Dynamic Conditions ◽  
Static Conditions

After their consolidation, the Ketilidian gneisses were transversed by several generations of tensional, doleritic dykes-the Kuánitic dykes. During a later episode (the Sánerutian) these dykes were metamorphosed to varying degrees of alteration which increase in the described area from west to east. Along a specific metadolerite, which can be traced approx. 40 km, the metamorphic grade changes from greenschist to amphibolite facies. In the western parts static conditions and in the eastern parts dynamic conditions, prevailed during the alteration. Sánerutian shear zones in the eastern parts depict the dynamic conditions found here.

Archean rocks from the eastern Lac Seul region of the English River Gneiss Belt, northwestern Ontario, part 1. Petrology, chemistry, and metamorphism

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1201-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. B. W. Harris ◽  
A. M. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Complex Structure ◽  
Granulite Facies ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Field Evidence ◽  
Facies Metamorphism

The eastern Lac Seul region of the English River Gneiss Belt is divided into two domains defined by contrasting petrology and structure. The northern domain is underlain by east-trending, steeply south-dipping, migmatized metasediments, intruded by occasional granite sills, and the southern domain by gneissic tonalite and trondhjemite, with abundant amphibolite inclusions, intruded by granite dykes and diapirs: this domain has a complex structure with gently east-plunging open folds of about 5 km wavelength. Field evidence suggests that metasediments of the northern domain have been deposited on the tonalite trondhjemite basement, which was subsequently mobilized, thereby producing the steeply dipping paragneiss belt of the northern domain.The grade of metamorphism throughout the region lies in the upper amphibolite facies, rising locally to the granulite facies. Within 15 km of the southern margin of the gneiss belt, the metamorphic grade decreases to the greenschist facies.U–Pb dating of zircons indicates that the tonalite gneiss was emplaced at least 3040 m.y. ago, and the granite plutons at 2660 m.y., coeval with migmatization and upper amphibolite facies metamorphism. Late pegmatites were emplaced at 2560 m.y.

Petrology of Mg-Mn amphibole-bearing assemblages in manganese silicate rocks of the Sausar Group, India

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (364) ◽  
pp. 105-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somnath Dasgupta ◽  
P. K. Bhattacharya ◽  
G. Chattopadhyay ◽  
H. Banerjee ◽  
N. Majumdar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bivalent Cation ◽  
Manganese Silicate ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Silicate Rocks

AbstractMg-Mn amphibole (tirodite), with or without pyroxmangite in the total absence of pyroxenes and high-calcic pyroxenoids, occurs in the Mn silicate rocks of the Sausar Group, India. The rocks were metamorphosed to amphibolite facies condition (T ∼ 650°C, P ∼ 6 kbar). Tirodite-pyroxmangite pairs developed in both carbonate-free and rhodochrosite-bearing assemblages. Also tirodite coexists with either kutnahorite or manganoan calcite in the absence of pyroxmangite. Mineral reactions inferred from modal abundances and compositions of the phases indicate stabilization of the amphibole alone from a bivalent cation-bearing residual unbuffered XCO2 system with XMn < 0.3. On the other hand, tirodite-pyroxmangite pairs appeared in unbuffered low to intermediate XCO2 assemblages with XMn > 0.35. Pyroxenes and high-calcic pyroxenoids did not appear in the present situation, though they occur elsewhere in rocks with broadly similar contents of immobile components. Closely associated assemblages of diverse mineralogy suggest that the XMn and XCO2, rather than the physical conditions of metamorphism, are the decisive factors in promoting the observed phase assemblages.

Extent of Grenvillian remanence components in rocks of the Southern Province

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 698-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Stupavsky ◽  
D. T. A. Symons
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
North America ◽  
Thin Section ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Field Reversal ◽  
Paleomagnetic Study ◽  
Northern Portion ◽  
Sediment Matrix

Early Aphebian Gowganda sedimentary rocks and intruding Nipissing diabase sills were sampled for paleomagnetic study at 88 sites (~500 cores, ~1000 specimens) along two ~42 km long profiles extending north from the Grenville Front into the Cobalt Plate of the Southern Structural Province in the River Valley – Lake Temagami area of Ontario. After AF demagnetization a postfolding pre-Nipissing ~2200 Ma remanence was found in eight of the 37 Gowganda sediment sites that were > 2 km north of the front, giving a pole at 109°W, 63°N (dp = 10°, dm = 19°). The Nippissing diabase from > 2 km north of the front retains a stable antiparallel prefolding N1 remanence direction in 22 of 40 sites, giving a pole position of 85°W, 17°S (dp = 6°, dm = 10°). These "south and down" remanence directions found in the southern portion of the plate contrast with the antiparallel "north and up" directions found in the northern portion, thereby indicating the occurrence of either two nearly cogenetic Nipissing intrusive events or the sequential emplacement of the Nipissing during an Earth's magnetic field reversal across the plate. At two sites a Nipissing remagnetized remanence was found in Gowganda sediments with a pole of 115°W, 18°S. Also three "Nipissing" sites give a pole at 164°W, 3°N, which is close to the known pole for the later ~1.25 Ga Sudbury olivine diabase dikes. One site is adjacent to a large dike and two were found on thin-section examination to be olivine diabase. The eight sites in Gowganda sediment matrix and conglomerate clasts and in Nipissing diabase from within < 2 km from the front were found to have a postfolding metamorphic remanence with a Grenville orogenic pole at 45°W, 51°N (dp = 19°, dm = 21°). Finally, the results lead to a suggested revision in the APW path for the ~2300–~1650 Ma interval for North America.

Paleomagnetism of the Great Slave Supergroup, Northwest Territories, Canada: the Tochatwi Formation

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Evans ◽  
D. K. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
North American ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thermal Demagnetization ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
I 11 ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Geological Work ◽  
Magnetic Vectors

The Tochatwi Formation comprises some 800 m of fine-grained red to buff sandstone in the upper part of the Great Slave Supergroup. Recent geological work indicates an age of 1700 m.y., but this is not yet known with certainty. Results from 29 sampling sites stratigraphically covering the Tochatwi Formation are presented. Standard paleomagnetic techniques indicate that post-folding remagnetization is common, and this is confirmed by analysis of the magnetic vectors removed as partial thermal demagnetization proceeds. Two phases of remagnetization are recognized, one of which can be attributed to nearby Mackenzie-age intrusions. The other phase is equivalent to a remagnetization observed by other workers in Kahochella Group strata at localities 70 km away. As yet, the source of this remagnetization event cannot be identified. Eight sampling sites have escaped total remagnetization and an earlier, pre-folding remanence has been isolated from these (D = 030, I = −11, k = 14, α95 = 15°). The corresponding pole position (144W, 18S) is remote from those deduced from North American rocks of similar age, and possible explanations of this problem are discussed.

Paleomagnetic study of lower Mesozoic diabase dikes and sills of Connecticut and Maryland

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
Low Temperature Oxidation ◽  
Temperature Oxidation ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Good Convergence ◽  
Faunal Assemblages ◽  
Paleomagnetic Study ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
Stratigraphic Position

Paleomagnetic results from 61 sites on diabase dikes and sills in Connecticut and Maryland yield a mean pole of position of 100.9 °E. 68.6 °N, α95 = 1.6°. These results combined with those from 7S sites on four diabase sills in the Gettysburg Basin of Pennsylvania produce a mean pole position of 101, 6 °E. 65.4 °N, α95 = 1.3 °from 139 VGPs. These rocks arc probably of Early to early Middle Jurassic age by stratigraphic and inferred stratigraphic position. The paleomagnetic results indicate that the Gettysburg and Hartford Basins did not subside simultaneously.The dispersion of virtual geomagnetic poles about the mean pole of the Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Maryland intrusive rocks is probably the result of 'homogenization' of magnetic directions during low-temperature oxidation of titanomagnetite to titanomaghemite over a period long enough to erase a considerable amount of dispersion due to secular variation.Rotation of Europe against North America in the prerifting configuration causes good convergence of European Jurassic mean poles and the pole of the Connecticut. Maryland, and Pennsylvania intrusive rocks. This is evidence that separation of the two continents had not begun by Early to early Middle Jurassic time, which is in agreement with earlier findings based on sea-floor magnetic anomalies and faunal assemblages.

scholarly journals Neoproterozoic pegmatite from Skoddefjellet, Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen: Additional evidence for c. 640 Ma tectonothermal event in the Caledonides of Svalbard

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Majka ◽  
Alexander Larionov ◽  
David Gee ◽  
Jerzy Czerny ◽  
Jaroslav Pršek
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microprobe ◽  
Regional Metamorphism ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Facies Metamorphism ◽  
Shrimp Zircon ◽  
Tectonothermal Event

Neoproterozoic pegmatite from Skoddefjellet, Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen: Additional evidence forc. 640 Ma tectonothermal event in the Caledonides of SvalbardNeoproterozoic (c. 640 Ma) amphibolite facies metamorphism and deformation have been shown recently to have affected the Isbjørnhamna and Eimfjellet Complex of Wedel Jarlsberg Land in southwestern Spitsbergen. New SHRIMP zircon U-Pb andin situelectron microprobe monazite and uraninite U-Th-total Pb ages are presented here on a pegmatite occurring within the Isbjørnhamna metasedimentary rocks. Although the dated zircons are full of inclusions, have high-U contents and are metamict and hence have experienced notable Pb-loss, the new Cryogenian ages are consistent with the age of regional metamorphism of the host metasediments, providing additional evidence for a clear distinction of the Southwestern Province from the other parts of the Svalbard Caledonides.

The texture and composition of tourmaline in metasediments of the Sinai, Egypt: Implications for the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Pan-African basement

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Abu El-Enen ◽  
M. Okrusch
Keyword(s):  
Regional Metamorphism ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Crystalline Basement ◽  
Amphibolite Facies ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Chemical Signatures ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Metamorphic Facies

AbstractAccessory tourmaline in metasediments from the Sinai crystalline basement exhibits textural and chemical signatures that relate to the evolution of regional metamorphism and deformation during the Pan-African orogeny and testifies to different P-T path segments. Tourmaline inclusions in various porphyroblasts were formed during the prograde phase of metamorphism; acicular to prismatic crystals in the matrix, oriented sub-parallel to, and enveloped by, the main foliation crystallized syntectonically under prograde and peak metamorphic conditions; tourmaline cross-cutting the main foliation may have formed just after the peak or during the retrograde phase of metamorphism. Some of the cores in tourmaline crystals, showing different colours, are interpreted as former detrital grains. The abundance of tourmaline decreases with increasing peak metamorphic conditions. The tourmaline investigated belongs to the schorl-dravitess group, generally with XMg of 0.42–0.73 and XCa = Ca/(Ca+Na+K+□) of 0.02–0.24, typical of tourmalines in metapelites and metapsammites; whereas detrital cores have been derived from various sources, including former tourmaline-quartz and pre-existing high-metamorphic rocks. Tourmaline of the Sinai metasediments was formed during metamorphism of the sedimentary precursors, essentially in a closed system, where clay minerals and organic matter, together with detrital tourmaline, served as the source of boron. Although a metamorphic facies should be defined by characteristic mineral assemblages present in metamorphic rocks, tourmaline chemistry is a good monitor of P-T conditions in the metapelites and semi-metapelites investigated, showing an increase in XMg with increasing metamorphic grade, where XturMg = 0.60 distinguishes between greenschist and lower-amphibolite facies, while XturMg = 0.65 could distinguish lower- from middle- to upper-amphibolite facies. The results of tourmaline-biotite geothermometry compare well with our former temperature estimates using conventional geothermometry and phase-diagram modelling.

Survival of zincian staurolite to upper amphibolite facies metamorphic grade

1993 ◽  
Vol 57 (389) ◽  
pp. 736-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Amphibolite Facies
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