scholarly journals Preliminary Radiometric Analyses of Zircons From the Mount Copeland Syenite Gneiss, Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, British Columbia

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
A V Okulitch ◽  
W D Loveridge ◽  
R W Sullivan

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1760-1769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew V. Okulitch ◽  
R. K. Wanless ◽  
W. D. Loveridge

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.



1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. K. Wanless ◽  
J. E. Reesor

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.



1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Okulitch ◽  
B. E. B. Cameron

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.



1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1447-1454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Gilman

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.



1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1690-1695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee C. Pigage

Whole rock Rb–Sr dates of 138 ± 12 Ma (all five whole rocks) and 163 ± 7 Ma were obtained for granodiorite stocks in Wells Gray Provincial Park, Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia. These dates bracket the biotite K–Ar date of 143 ± 14 Ma determined previously by the Geological Survey of Canada. Two biotite – whole rock ± hornblende dates of 119 ± 11 Ma and 77 ± 20 Ma indicate isotopic resetting. Initial 87Sr–86Sr ratios vary from 0.7061 ± 0.0001 to 0.7103 ± 0.0002 for rock and mineral dates.When combined with field relations, these dates restrict regional deformation and metamorphism in this area to the time interval between Upper Triassic and Upper Jurassic. The resetting event was probably Eocene, as shown in other areas along regional strike to the north and south.



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