Contrasts in the response to dextral transpression across the Quetico–Wawa subprovince boundary in northeastern Minnesota

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1521-1535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Bauer ◽  
Matthew E. Bidwell
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strain ◽  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Stress Regime ◽  
Regional Stress ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Deformation Regime ◽  
Dextral Shear

Folds and shear zones in the central and western Vermilion district greenstone belt (Wawa Subprovince) are consistent with deformation in a regime of regional dextral transpression. However, the shear strain associated with this deformation regime is only locally evident in the schist and migmatite of the adjacent southeastern Vermilion Granitic Complex (VGC) (Quetico Subprovince). We suggest that differential partitioning of shear and flattening strains between the two terranes was controlled by the lower ductility, higher competency contrast, and steeper dip of orogen-parallel rock units in the Vermilion district compared with the variably oriented rocks in the adjacent VGC. Contact strains adjacent to plutonic bodies played a greater role in the development of complex fold geometries in the VGC.In the central Vermilion district, northwest-directed subhorizontal shortening produced easterly striking zones of brittle-ductile dextral shear and northeast-trending en echelon folds. The en echelon folds with curvilinear axial traces formed in the greenstone and local iron formation layers. These units were steepened during folding and early stages of deformation and acted as rigid competent units during subsequent shearing. The shear zones were concentrated in units of tuff and graywacke between the more rigid, steeply dipping greenstone units.In the adjacent southeastern VGC, the same regional stress regime resulted primarily in folding with only rare indications of ductile dextral shear. The transpression event produced westerly trending F2 folds along the southern margin of the VGC. However, the F2 folds have more varied orientations along the margins of syntectonic to late-tectonic granitic plutons and were locally refolded by easterly trending F3 folds during continued northwest-directed shortening.

Stratigraphy, structure, and geochronology of the 3.0–2.7 Ga Wallace Lake greenstone belt, western Superior Province, southeast Manitoba, Canada

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 929-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Sasseville ◽  
K Y Tomlinson ◽  
A Hynes ◽  
V McNicoll
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Crustal Contamination ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Lake Winnipeg ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Plume Magmatism

In western Superior province, the North Caribou terrane (NCT) constitutes a Mesoarchean proto-continent heavily overprinted by Neoarchean magmatism and deformation resulting from the western Superior Province accretion. Locally, along the southern margin of the NCT, Mesoarchean (~3.0 Ga) rift sequences are preserved. These sequences are of key importance to our understanding of the early tectonic evolution of continental crust. The Wallace Lake greenstone belt is located at the southern margin of the NCT and includes the Wallace Lake assemblage, the Big Island assemblage, the Siderock Lake assemblage, and the French Man Bay assemblage. The Wallace Lake assemblage exposes one of the best-preserved Mesoarchean rift sequences along the southern margin of the NCT. The volcano-sedimentary assemblage (3.0–2.92 Ga) exposes arkoses derived from the uplift of a tonalite basement in a subaqueous environment, capped by carbonate and iron formation. Mafic to ultramafic volcanic rocks exhibiting crustal contamination and derived from plume magmatism cap this rift sequence. The Wallace Lake assemblage exhibits D1 Mesoarchean deformation. The Big Island assemblage comprises mafic volcanic rocks of oceanic affinity that were docked to the Wallace Lake assemblage along northwest-trending D2 shear zones. The timing of volcanism and docking of the Big Island assemblage remain uncertain. The Siderock Lake and French Man Bay assemblages were deposited in strike-slip basins related to D3 and D4 stages of movement of the transcurrent Wanipigow fault (<2.709 Ga). Regionally, the Wallace Lake assemblage correlates with the Lewis–Story Rift assemblage observed in Lake Winnipeg, whereas the Big Island assemblage appears to correlate with the Black Island assemblage observed in the Lake Winnipeg area. Thus, the North Caribou terrane appears to preserve vestiges of a Mesoarchean rifted succession together with overlying Neoarchean allochthonous, juvenile, volcanic successions over a considerable distance along its present-day southern margin.

A reinterpretation of the Archaean stratigraphy south of Nkandla, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: Geophysical and stratigraphic constraints on a sheared granitoid-greenstone remnant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Hicks ◽  
D.J.C. Gold
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Kaapvaal Craton ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences ◽  
The North ◽  
Southeastern Margin ◽  
Domain 3 ◽  
Volcanic Succession

Abstract A new lithostratigraphic framework based upon a review of historic data, field mapping and remote sensing, including aerial photography, high-resolution airborne aeromagnetic and radiometric data, is proposed for the Archaean geology along the southeastern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. A synthesis of new and existing data reveals that previously accepted lithostratigraphic schemes require complete revision, with reinterpretations identifying multiple major shear zones and previously unidentified granitoid successions along the margin of the craton. In this new lithostratigraphic framework, lithologies of the Southern Syncline previously correlated with the Nsuze Group of the Pongola Supergroup, are redefined as greenstone lithologies associated with the Ilangwe Greenstone Belt. The geology of the Nkandla region can be subdivided into five distinct geophysical domains including: (i) an extension of the Ilangwe Greenstone Belt, (Domain 1) which is subdivided into; a lower volcanic succession, the Thathe Formation, comprising pillow and amygdaloidal volcanics; the adjoining Sabiza Formation, comprising pillow volcanics exposed in the southeast of the study area; the volcano-sedimentary Mtshwili Formation, which overlies the Thathe and Sabiza formations, consisting of quartz (sericite) schist, phyllite, metavolcanics and iron formation; the Nomangci Formation, which occurs as a region of highly deformed quartz-kyanite-sericite schists, and the Simbagwezi Formation, which comprises maroon to green phyllites and schists in the north of the study area. (ii) granitoids of the Impisi Granitoid Suite (Domain 2) which border the greenstone succession to the north, intruding the Nomangci and Simbagwezi formations. (iii) a southern complex of sheared granitoids termed the Umgabhi Granitoid Suite (Domain 3), which intrudes the Thathe, Sabiza and Mtshwili formations. (iv) The two remaining domains, comprise the Mesoproterozoic Mfongosi and Ntingwe Groups (Domain 4) and Mesoarchaean volcano-sedimentary sequences of the Pongola Supergroup (Domain 5).

A structural reappraisal of the Beardmore–Geraldton Belt at the southern boundary of the Wabigoon subprovince, Ontario, and implications for gold mineralization

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Lafrance ◽  
Jerry C DeWolfe ◽  
Greg M Stott
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mineralization ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Axial Plane ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Gold Mines ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Ore Zones

The Beardmore–Geraldton Belt occurs along the southern margin of the Archean Wabigoon subprovince, Superior Province, Ontario. The belt consists of shear-bounded interleaved metasedimentary and metavolcanic units. The units were imbricated from 2696 to 2691 Ma during D1 thrusting and accretion of the Wabigoon, Quetico, and Wawa subprovinces. Post-accretion D2 deformation produced regional F2 folds that transposed lithological units parallel to the axial plane S2 cleavage of the folds. During D3 deformation, the folds were overprinted by a regional S3 cleavage oriented anticlockwise of F2 axial planes, and lithological contacts and S2 cleavage were reactivated as planes of shear within dextral regional shear zones that generally conform to the trend of the belt. D3 is a regional dextral transpression event that also affected the Quetico and Wawa subprovinces, south of the Beardmore–Geraldton Belt. Gold mineralization at the Leitch and MacLeod-Cockshutt mines, the two richest past-producing gold mines in the Beardmore–Geraldton Belt, is associated with D3 shear zones and folds, overprinting regional F2 folds. The plunge of the ore zones is parallel to F3 fold axes and to the intersection of D3 shear zones with F2 and F3 folds.

Late-Pleistocene flank collapse triggered by dome growth at Tacaná volcano, México-Guatemala, and its relationship to the regional stress regime

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Macías ◽  
J. L. Arce ◽  
A. García-Palomo ◽  
J. C. Mora ◽  
P. W. Layer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Stress Regime ◽  
Regional Stress ◽  
Flank Collapse ◽  
Dome Growth ◽  
Tacaná Volcano

The application of the mise-a-la-masse electrical technique in Greenstone belt gold exploration

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
L.G.B.T. Polomé
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Electrical Potential ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Current Electrode ◽  
Barberton Greenstone Belt ◽  
A Current ◽  
Ore Zones ◽  
Gold Bearing

Most of the gold deposits in the Barberton Greenstone belt of South Africa are relatively small and in structurally complex geological areas.The mise-a-la-masse electrical technique, where a current electrode is earthed in a mineralised zone, was used on one of our exploration projects consisting of a sulphides/gold-bearing carbonaceous banded iron formation within a succession of mafic, ultramafic and sedimentary rocks. The technique was successful in delineating individual mineralised units within a broad lithological sequence. During the survey, electrical potential measurements were recorded on surface, in underground drives and in twenty five boreholes. Measurements were also repeated by earthing the mineralised zone in a number of boreholes. Major discontinuities were recognised within the ore zones and used to interpret geological structures. These were then used to define specific units for ore reserve calculations and the application of selected mining techniques.

The Quérigut Complex (Pyrenees, France) revisited by the AMS technique : a syntectonic pluton of the Variscan dextral transpression

2004 ◽  
Vol 175 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Auréjac ◽  
Gérard Gleizes ◽  
Hervé Diot ◽  
Jean-Luc Bouchez
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
The South ◽  
Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropy ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Deformation Regime ◽  
Shear Sense ◽  
Dextral Shear ◽  
Magnetic Lineations

Abstract The Variscan Querigut Pluton (eastern Axial Zone, Pyrenees), recently dated at 307 ± 2 Ma, is a classical example for the structural study of granitoids. We present a new structural analysis of this pluton using the powerful technique of magnetic susceptibility anisotropy (AMS). A model of pluton emplacement is proposed on the basis of complementary microstructural analyses allowing the determination of the temperatures of fabric acquisition in the magmatic units, and of the shear sense criteria in the surrounding country rocks. This pluton is constituted by two main units that have intruded metasedimentary rocks where regional metamorphic conditions decrease from southwest to northeast. A well-foliated southern granodioritic unit, rich in Devonian marble xenoliths, is bounded to the south by Cambro-Ordovician metapelites. A weakly foliated northern monzogranitic unit, bounded to the north by Devonian marbles, comprises two sub-types : an outer biotite-monzogranite and an inner biotite-muscovite leucomonzogranite. Abundant basic stocks of variable sizes and lithologies outcrop in the granodioritic unit and in the southern part of the monzogranitic unit. Mean magnetic susceptibility and magnetic foliation maps show a very good agreement with the previous compiled petrographic and structural maps, strengthening the validity of the AMS technique. The northern monzogranitic units display two unevenly distributed structural patterns : (a) a NE-SW-trending pattern of weakly to steeply dipping foliations, dominant in the outer biotite monzogranite, is associated to subhorizontal NE-SW lineations ; and (b) a NW-SE-trending pattern of steeply dipping foliations, dominant in the inner biotite-muscovite monzogranite, is concentrated in NW-SE elongated corridors, associated to subhorizontal NW-SE lineations. In the southern granodioritic unit, foliation patterns follow roughly both the main regional foliation pattern and the pluton boundary, with foliation dips increasing to the south. Subhorizontal NW-SE trending magnetic lineations in the inner parts of this unit, are progressively verticalized toward the southern pluton boundary. A progressive increase in total magnetic anisotropy is observed toward the border of the pluton, correlated with both an increase in solid-state deformation and a decrease of the final temperature of fabric acquisition. These features result from a pluri-kilometric shear zone localized in the western half of the granodioritic unit, decreasing in thickness in its eastern half and along N060oE trending contacts with the country rocks. In the northern monzogranitic unit, one can roughly correlate the magmatic microstructures to the NE-SW trending fabric, and the superimposed subsolidus microstructures to the NW-SE-trending corridors, where rather low-temperature (&lt; 300 oC) fluid-assisted cataclastic microstructures may also appear. The country-rocks, half kilometer away from the pluton border, display the D2 regional Variscan pattern, with subvertical and N110oE-striking foliations and subhorizontal and E-W-trending stretching lineations associated to a dextral shear. Closer to the pluton, the country-rocks are subjected to the pluton influence, particularly along the southern border where a strong flattening is associated to subvertical lineations related to local thrusting of the pluton onto its country rocks. An emplacement model is proposed through the injection of three principal magma batches (granodiorite, biotite-monzogranite and biotite-muscovite monzogranite) that successively and progressively built up the pluton while the whole region was subjected to a dextral and compressive deformation regime, in agreement with AMS results obtained from several other plutons of the Pyrenees.

scholarly journals Fractal Nature of the Band-Thickness in the Archean Banded Iron Formation in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Northwest Territories, Canada

10.5772/55700 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nagayoshi Katsuta ◽  
Ichiko Shimizu ◽  
Masao Takano ◽  
Shin Kawakami ◽  
Herwart Helmstaedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Fractal Nature ◽  
Banded Iron Formation

scholarly journals Ice deformed in compression and simple shear: control of temperature and initial fabric

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (207) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J.L. Wilson ◽  
Mark Peternell
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strain ◽  
Simple Shear ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Preferred Orientation ◽  
Shear Strain Rate ◽  
Compression Strain ◽  
Mechanical Evolution ◽  
Polycrystalline Ice ◽  
Strain Magnitude

AbstractLayered and polycrystalline ice was experimentally deformed in general shear involving axial compression (strain magnitude 0.5-17%) and simple shear (strain magnitude γ = 0.1-1.4). As the temperature is increased from -20°C to -2°C, there is at least a twofold enhancement in octahedral shear strain rate, which coincides with the onset of extensive dynamic recrystallization and a change in grain-size distribution at -15°C. Between -150C and -10°C the c-axis preferred orientation rapidly evolves with the initiation of two-maxima fabrics in shear zones. From -10°C to -2°C there is progressive evolution of a final c-axis pattern that is asymmetric with respect to the direction of shortening, with a strong maximum at ~5° to the pole of the shear zone, a sense of asymmetry in the direction of the shear, and a secondary maximum inclined at ~45° to the plane of shearing. An initial c-axis preferred orientation plays a critical role in the initial mechanical evolution. In contrast to established ideas, a strong alignment of basal planes parallel to the plane of easy glide inhibited deformation and there was an increased component of strain hardening until recrystallization processes become dominant.

Emplacement features of Archaean TTG plutons along the southern margin of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.F.M. Kisters ◽  
C.R. Anhaeusser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Barberton Greenstone Belt ◽  
Southern Margin
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