Age and isotopic composition of late Archean leucogranites: implications for continental collision in the western Superior Province

1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Larbi ◽  
R Stevenson ◽  
F Breaks ◽  
N Machado ◽  
C Gariépy
Keyword(s):  
Rare Metal ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Abitibi Subprovince ◽  
Winnipeg River ◽  
Rare Metal Mineralization ◽  
Mantle Component

U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic data are presented for leucogranites and pegmatites from the boundary zones of the English River, Winnipeg River, and Wabigoon subprovinces in the late Archean Superior Province of northwestern Ontario. The Ghost Lake batholith and the Separation Rapids pluton are posttectonic, rare-metal-bearing, S-type leucogranites that were generated during the final stages of the amalgamation of the Superior Province. U-Pb dating of monazites yields ages of 2650 ± 3 Ma for a pegmatite from the Dryden area and 2646 ± 2 Ma for the Separation Rapids pluton. Sm-Nd data from these granitoids are compared with similar data from late Archean intrusions and adjacent rocks from the same regions. Values of εNd range from 0 to +2 for pretectonic tonalites, from -2 to +2 for both the Ghost Lake batholith and the Separation Rapids pluton, from +1 to +3.5 for metavolcanic rocks, and from -0.5 to -1.5 for metasedimentary rocks. There is an overall trend of decreasing εNd values from pretectonic tonalites to the latest leucocratic pegmatites. This reflects the origin of more and more granitoids as a result of anatexis as the crust grew and thickened through accretion. The ranges of εNd values found among leucogranites from the two regions overlap with the isotopic values of the basalts and sediments. This suggests that the leucogranites were generated by similar processes involving both a crustal and a juvenile mantle component. Furthermore, the ages from this study and from pegmatites (2652-2643 Ma) in the Bird River greenstone belt provide the best estimate of the age of rare metal mineralization in the western Superior Province. Similar ages (2651-2639 Ma) for rare-metal-bearing leucogranites in southern Abitibi subprovince suggest a specific period of emplacement over a wide area.

Two komatiitic pyroclastic units, Superior Province, northwestern Ontario: their geology, petrography, and correlation

1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1455-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Schaefer ◽  
Penelope Morton
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Volcanism ◽  
Pyroclastic Rock ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Volcanic Breccia ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Volcaniclastic Rocks ◽  
Lapilli Tuff

Two Archean komatiitic pyroclastic rock units occur on opposite sides of the Quetico Fault in northwestern Ontario. The eastern unit, the Dismal Ashrock, is located 3 km north of Atikokan, Ontario, on the north side of the Quetico Fault within the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Superior Province. It is part of a suprascrustal sequence, the Steep Rock Group. The Grassy Portage Bay ultramafic pyroclastic rock unit (GUP) is located 100 km to the west, on the south side of the Quetico Fault, and is part of an overturned succession comprising mafic metavolcanic rocks, GUP, and metasedimentary rocks. The Dismal Ashrock dips steeply, is little deformed, has undergone greenschist metamorphism, and is divided into komatiitic lapilli tuff, komatiitic volcanic breccia, komatiitic volcaniclastic rocks, and a mafic pillowed flow. GUP outcrops form an arcuate fold interference pattern, are strongly deformed, and have undergone amphibolite metamorphism. GUP is divided into komatiitic lapilli tuff and komatiitic volcanic breccia. Both pyroclastic units contain cored and composite lapilli, evidence for explosive volcanism. Locally, some of the lapilli fragments are highly vesicular (up to 30% by volume), greater than reported for any other komatiites. Other fragments show no vesicularity. The low vesicularity of some of the pyroclasts and, in the case of the Dismal Ashrock, their association with pinowed lava flows may indicate explosive hydrovolcanic activity. The Dismal Ashrock and GUP are high in MgO, Cr, and Ni and are unusually enriched in Fe, Ti, Zr, Mn, P, Ba, Nb, Rb, and Sr compared with other komatiites. These unique geochemical compositions are not understood at this time.

U–Pb zircon ages of volcanism and plutonism in the Mishibishu greenstone belt near Wawa, Ontario

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Turek ◽  
R. Keller ◽  
W. R. Van Schmus
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Calc Alkaline ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Volcanic Pile ◽  
Archean Greenstone Belt

The Mishibishu greenstone belt, located 40 km west of Wawa, is a typical Archean greenstone belt and is probably an extension of the Michipicoten belt. This belt is composed of basic to felsic metavolcanic rocks of tholeiitic to calc-alkaline affinity and of metasedimentary rocks ranging from conglomerate to argillite. Granitoids, diorites, and gabbros intrude and embay supracrustal rocks as internal and external plutons.Six U–Pb zircon ages have been obtained on rocks in this area. The oldest is 2721 ± 4 Ma for the Jostle Lake tonalite. The bulk of the volcanic rocks formed by 2696 ± 17 Ma, which is the age of the Chimney Point porphyry at the top of the volcanic pile. The Pilot Harbour granite has a similar age of 2693 ± 7 Ma. The age of the Tee Lake tonalite is 2673 ± 12 Ma, and the age of the Iron. Lake gabbro is 2671 ± 4 Ma. The youngest age for volcanics in this part of the Superior Province is 2677 ± 7 Ma, obtained from, the David Lakes pyroclastic breccia. these ages agree with those reported for the adjacent Michipicoten and Gamitagama belts.

Structure of the Archean English River subprovince: implications for the tectonic evolution of the western Superior Province, Canada

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 947-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
R B Hrabi ◽  
A R Cruden
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Seismic Profile ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Structural Mapping ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Reflection Seismic ◽  
Winnipeg River ◽  
High Grade Metamorphism

The English River subprovince is one of two metasediment-dominated terranes in the western Superior Province. It has been interpreted as an accretionary complex, a foreland, or a fore-arc basin that developed and was subsequently deformed between the metavolcanic-rich Uchi subprovince and the orthogneiss- and metaplutonic-dominated Winnipeg River subprovince during a prolonged transpressive orogeny. To test these hypotheses, we combined a satellite image, aeromagnetic image, and Lithoprobe reflection seismic profile interpretation with detailed structural mapping to better characterize the internal geometry and significance of structural features in the western part of the subprovince in Ontario. Northward-directed subduction and collision of the Winnipeg River subprovince with the Uchi subprovince at ca. >2713–2698 Ma can account for the deposition of the sedimentary rocks, initial metamorphism, and the main phase of deformation in the subprovince, whereas the subduction of Wabigoon crust generated extensive tonalite magmatism in the Winnipeg River and English River subprovinces during the same period. A period of extension, after the docking of the Winnipeg River and Wabigoon subprovinces at ca. 2698 Ma, punctuated the compressive phases of the orogeny and was responsible for high-grade metamorphism, upward bending of the Moho, and localized deposition of late, coarse, alluvial–fluvial metasedimentary rocks. Renewed compression caused by the docking of the Wawa subprovince at ca. 2689–2684 Ma is likely responsible for a largely unrecognized regional upright folding and faulting event that controls the dominant structural geometry of the subprovince. Late in its tectonic evolution, strain was partitioned into dextral deformation that was strongly domainal and limited to the subprovince margins.

Nd and Pb isotopes from the Lake of the Woods greenstone belt, northwestern Ontario: implications for mantle evolution and the formation of crust in the southern Superior Province

2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 1677-1689 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A Ayer ◽  
Jaroslav Dostal
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Crustal Contamination ◽  
Pb Isotopes ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Elevated Concentration ◽  
Lake Of The Woods ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Depleted Mantle ◽  
Winnipeg River ◽  
Mantle Reservoir

Nd and Pb isotopes from the Lake of the Woods greenstone belt indicate the presence of three distinct reservoir sources: old enriched crust (>3.0 Ga); pre-2.7 Ga, homogeneous depleted mantle; and post-2.70 Ga heterogeneous mantle. EpsilonNd values of +1.1 to +2.3 for ultramafic to felsic metavolcanic rocks (2.74–2.72 Ga) indicate derivation from depleted mantle. The εNd value of –0.9 for younger turbidite (2.71 Ga), in conjunction with detrital zircon ages ranging from 2.72 to 3.0 Ga, indicates detritus from local greenstone belt sources (depleted mantle) mixed with an older crustal source. Post-2.70 Ga heterogeneity is demonstrated by εNd values ranging from –0.4 to +0.4 in shoshonitic to calc-alkaline metavolcanic rocks and +2.1 in a coeval ultrapotassic pluton. Pb isotopes from the pluton indicate derivation from a depleted mantle reservoir with an initial 207Pb/204Pb of 14.52, an initial 206Pb/204Pb of 13.29, and µ1 of 7.86. Isotopic comparison with post-2.70 Ga potassic suites from across the Superior Province indicates widespread mixing between depleted mantle and enriched end members. The enriched end member has isotopic characteristics of rocks derived from old crustal terrains, such as the Winnipeg River and Opatica subprovinces. This type of isotopic heterogeneity could be the result of crustal contamination or derivation from metasomatized mantle. Contamination of the mantle wedge by influx of fluids derived from partial melting of isotopically evolved, subducted sediments is favoured for the Superior Province potassic suite, because elevated concentration of Sr, Nd, and Pb in conjunction with primitive Mg#s suggest only limited crustal contamination has occurred.

U–Pb zircon ages and the evolution of the Michipicoten plutonic–volcanic terrane of the Superior Province, Ontario

1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Turek ◽  
Patrick E. Smith ◽  
W. R. Van Schmus
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Zircon Geochronology ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Volcanic Cycles

The Archean Michipicoten greenstone belt of the Superior Province in Ontario is made up of supracrustal rocks divided into lower, middle, and upper metavolcanic rocks with associated metasedimentary rocks. The belt has been intruded by granitic rocks and is also surrounded by granitic terranes. Based on U–Pb zircon geochronology it appears that volcanism in the area extended from at least 2749 to 2696 Ma, and plutonism and tectonic activity extended from at least 2888 to 2615 Ma. The various granitic (and also one gabbroic) plutons, both internal and external to the greenstone belt, were emplaced concomitantly with the three volcanic cycles as well as before and after the formation of the volcanic rocks. Zircon ages reported here, together with previously published ages, show that the area evolved in six major volcanic and plutonic events: (I) 2888 Ma—plutonism, (II) 2743 Ma—volcanism and plutonism, (III) 2717 Ma—volcanism and plutonism, (IV) 2696 Ma—volcanism and plutonism, (V) 2668 Ma—plutonism, and (VI) 2615 Ma—plutonism. The oldest rock dated at 2888 ± 2 Ma belongs to the external granitic terrane and may be basement to the supracrustal rocks.

The Shebandowan group: "Timiskaming-like" Archean rocks in northwestern Ontario

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Borradaile ◽  
H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fabric ◽  
Tectonic Event ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks

This group of Archean volcanic and metasedimentary rocks is generally considered to be younger than the Keewatin metavolcanic rocks. The metasedimentary rocks are disposed in tight to isoclinal folds with strong plunge variations that are mainly due to a primary tectonic event. The folds are accompanied by a single, penetrative tectonic microfabric and a coplanar magnetic fabric. The contacts of the group with the adjacent Keewatin rocks are unexposed but are inferred to be faulted, at least in part.

Rb–Sr and U–Pb ages of volcanism and granite emplacement in the Michipicoten belt—Wawa, Ontario

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1608-1626 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Turek ◽  
Patrick E. Smith ◽  
W. R. Van Schmus
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
Initial Ratio ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Granite Emplacement ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Volcanic Belts

The Michipicoten greenstone belt at Wawa, Ontario is typical of Archean volcanic belts in the Superior Province. The supracrustal rocks are divisible into lower, middle, and upper metavolcanic sequences, which are separated by iron formation and clastic metasedimentary rocks. These are intruded by granitic stocks and embayed by granitic batholiths.This study reports whole rock Rb–Sr and zircon U–Pb ages for the lower and upper metavolcanics, for the granitic rocks that are physically within the greenstone belt (internal granites), and for the granitic rocks that embay the greenstone belt (external granites). The apparent Rb–Sr ages for the lower metavolcanics are 2530 ± 90, 2285 ± 70, and 2680 ± 490 Ma. The U–Pb ages are 2749 ± 2 and 2744 ± 10 Ma. The internal granites give an Rb–Sr age of 2560 ± 270 Ma and a U–Pb age of 2737 ± 6 Ma. The external granite at Hawk Lake indicates an Rb–Sr age of 2550 ± 175 Ma and a U–Pb age of 2747 ± 7 Ma. It is possible that this unit contains elements older than 2812 Ma as it contains xenocrystic zircons. The upper volcanics give a U–Pb age of 2696 ± 2 Ma, which indicates that the belt evolved over a time period in excess of 53 Ma. The Rb–Sr ages are significantly younger than the U–Pb zircon ages and have very large uncertainties in age; hence it is unlikely that they have any stratigraphic significance. They probably reflect the Kenoran orogeny at about 2560 Ma. The 2285 ± 70 Ma Rb–Sr isochron age has an initial ratio of 0.7275 ± 0.0052, which is interpreted as a rotational isochron defining a younger post-Kenoran event in the area. The zircon ages appear to be correct chronostratigraphically. Furthermore, it appears that the granitic rocks are coeval and may also be cogenetic with the lower acid metavolcanic rocks.

DECIPHERING TEXTURAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG LITHIUM ALUMINOSILICATES IN DIBS PEGMATITE, WINNIPEG RIVER DISTRICT, SUPERIOR PROVINCE, SE MANITOBA, CANADA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Hoeft ◽  
◽  
Lindsey Stone ◽  
Jarrett Humpula ◽  
James J. Student ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Superior Province ◽  
Winnipeg River

scholarly journals Geochemical signatures of mineralizing events in the Juomasuo Au–Co deposit, Kuusamo belt, northeastern Finland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Vasilopoulos ◽  
Ferenc Molnár ◽  
Hugh O’Brien ◽  
Yann Lahaye ◽  
Marie Lefèbvre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
Sulfur Isotope ◽  
Mineral Chemistry ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Metavolcanic Rocks ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Host Rocks ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractThe Juomasuo Au–Co deposit, currently classified as an orogenic gold deposit with atypical metal association, is located in the Paleoproterozoic Kuusamo belt in northeastern Finland. The volcano-sedimentary sequence that hosts the deposit was intensely altered, deformed, and metamorphosed to greenschist facies during the 1.93–1.76 Ga Svecofennian orogeny. In this study, we investigate the temporal relationship between Co and Au deposition and the relationship of metal enrichment with protolith composition and alteration mineralogy by utilizing lithogeochemical data and petrographic observations. We also investigate the nature of fluids involved in deposit formation based on sulfide trace element and sulfur isotope LA-ICP-MS data together with tourmaline mineral chemistry and boron isotopes. Classification of original protoliths was made on the basis of geochemically immobile elements; recognized lithologies are metasedimentary rocks, mafic, intermediate-composition, and felsic metavolcanic rocks, and an ultramafic sill. The composition of the host rocks does not control the type or intensity of mineralization. Sulfur isotope values (δ34S − 2.6 to + 7.1‰) and trace element data obtained for pyrite, chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite indicate that the two geochemically distinct Au–Co and Co ore types formed from fluids of different compositions and origins. A reduced, metamorphic fluid was responsible for deposition of the pyrrhotite-dominant, Co-rich ore, whereas a relatively oxidized fluid deposited the pyrite-dominant Au–Co ore. The main alteration and mineralization stages at Juomasuo are as follows: (1) widespread albitization that predates both types of mineralization; (2) stage 1, Co-rich mineralization associated with chlorite (± biotite ± amphibole) alteration; (3) stage 2, Au–Co mineralization related to sericitization. Crystal-chemical compositions for tourmaline suggest the involvement of evaporite-related fluids in formation of the deposit; boron isotope data also allow for this conclusion. Results of our research indicate that the metal association in the Juomasuo Au–Co deposit was formed by spatially coincident and multiple hydrothermal processes.

scholarly journals Uranium and rare metal mineralization in the El Sela and Qash Amir granitic intrusions, South Eastern Desert, Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 100066
Author(s):  
Hassan.A.A. Shahin ◽  
Bahaa.M. Emad ◽  
Masoud.S. Masoud
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Rare Metal Mineralization ◽  
Granitic Intrusions
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