Stratigraphy and Structure of the western Margin of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, Vernon (82L) and Seymour Arm (82M) map-areas, British Columbia

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
A V Okulitch
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
Shuswap Metamorphic Complex

Devonian Plutonism in South-Central British Columbia

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1760-1769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew V. Okulitch ◽  
R. K. Wanless ◽  
W. D. Loveridge
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
South Central ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shuswap Metamorphic Complex

An apparently tabular body of granitoid gneiss, 3 to 5 km wide and more than 70 km long, that lies along the western margin of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex between Shuswap and Admas Lakes, shows intrusive relationships with Palaeozoic and older rocks and has yielded zircons whose minimum age is 372 Ma. This intrusion, together with other granitoid plutons in the area that appear to be related to it, provide evidence of widespread plutonism during Middle Devonian time near the western edge of the Paleozoic Cordillera geosyncline and necessitate significant revisions in the interpretation of the crustal history of this region.

Stratigraphic revisions of the Nicola, Cache Creek, and Mount Ida Groups, based on conodont collections from the western margin of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, south-central British Columbia

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Okulitch ◽  
B. E. B. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Upper Triassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
South Central ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Shuswap Metamorphic Complex

Conodonts have been recovered from highly deformed limestone and calcareous argillite in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic successions near the western border of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex. Presently known biostratigraphic sequences indicate that the Eagle Bay Formation of the Mount Ida Group is in part Mississippian in age, and likely correlative with the Slide Mountain and Milford Groups. In addition, part of the succession previously mapped as Cache Creek Group in the Vernon area is now known to be Late Triassic in age, and can be correlated with the Sicamous Formation of the Mount Ida Group, the Nicola Group, and the Slocan Group. The Upper Triassic succession was affected by deformation and metamorphism associated with development of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex.

The Great Tonalite Sill of southeastern Alaska and British Columbia: emplacement into an active contractional high angle reverse shear zone (extended abstract)

1992 ◽  
Vol 83 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 383-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald H. W. Hutton ◽  
Gary M. Ingram
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
High Angle ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
Western Cordillera ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
The World ◽  
Gravina Belt

The Great Tonalite Sill (GTS) of southeastern Alaska and British Columbia (Brew & Ford 1981; Himmelberg et al. 1991) is one of the most remarkable intrusive bodies in the world: it extends for more than 800 km along strike and yet is only some 25 km or less in width. It consists of a belt of broadly tonalitic sheet-like plutons striking NW–SE and dipping steeply NE, and has been dated between 55 Ma and 81 Ma (J. L. Wooden, written communication to D. A. Brew, April 1990) (late Cretaceous to early Tertiary). The sill (it is steeply inclined and rather more like a “dyke”) is emplaced along the extreme western margin of the Coast Plutonic and Metamorphic Complex (CPMC), the high grade core of the Western Cordillera. The CPMC forms the western part of a group of tectonostratigraphic terranes including Stikine and Cache Creek, collectively known as the Intermontane Superterrane (Rubin et al. 1990). To the W of the GTS, rocks of the Insular Superterrane, including the Alexander and Wrangellia terranes and the Gravina belt, form generally lower metamorphic grade assemblages. The boundary between these two superterranes is obscure but it may lie close to, or be coincident with, the trace of the GTS.

Precambrian Zircon Age of Orthogneiss in the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, British Columbia

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. K. Wanless ◽  
J. E. Reesor
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
Gneiss Dome ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Core Zone ◽  
The Core ◽  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Proterozoic Basement ◽  
Shuswap Metamorphic Complex ◽  
Age Determinations

Pb-U age determinations carried out on zircon from granodiorite gneiss of the core zone of Thor-Odin gneiss dome have provided isotopic evidence for involvement of Proterozoic basement rocks in the Mesozoic structures of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex. The study has revealed that the zircons originally crystallized [Formula: see text] ago and suffered an episodic loss of lead [Formula: see text] ago.

Geology of the Clachnacudainn Salient Near Albert Canyon, British Columbia

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1447-1454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Gilman
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Quartz Diorite ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
White Marble ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The Core ◽  
Systematic Pattern ◽  
Selkirk Mountains ◽  
Shuswap Metamorphic Complex

The nature of the Clachnacudainn Salient of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex has been investigated in the vicinity of Albert Canyon, British Columbia. A concordant, folded sheet of granodiorite to quartz–diorite gneiss lying between two contrasting panels of metasedimentary rocks is exposed along the Illecillewaet Valley between Albert Canyon and Revelstoke. The lower panel, consisting predominantly of quartzo–feldspathic schist, is exposed in the Woolsey Creek Window in the core of the Lauretta Dome, and in an adjacent antiform at Clachnacudainn Creek. The upper panel, comprised in part of quartzo–feldspathic schist and migmatite, contains, in addition, thick beds of white marble and white or light gray quartzite. Marble and quartzite of the upper panel are correlated with the Badshot limestone and the Hamill quartzite found east of Albert Canyon in the Selkirk Mountains. Within the granodiorite gneiss, axes of broad open folds trend northwest–southeast as do the mineral lineations. Folding within the metasediments is complex and has not been resolved into a systematic pattern. Crosscutting bodies of diorite, granite, and pegmatite are abundant in many parts of the area, cutting both the granodiorite gneiss and the metasedimentary rocks.

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