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  • 1
    In: Journal of Marriage and Family, Wiley, Vol. 67, No. 5 ( 2005-12), p. 1355-1358
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    Publisher: Wiley
    Publication Date: 2005
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    University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB ; 1994
    In:  Atlantic Geology Vol. 30, No. 2 ( 1994-07-01)
    In: Atlantic Geology, University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB, Vol. 30, No. 2 ( 1994-07-01)
    Abstract: New U-Pb (zircon) data from the northern Boisdale Hills show that rhyolite on Long Island and syenogranite of the nearby Mount Cameron pluton have similar ages of SOS ± 3 Ma and 509 ± 2 Ma, respectively. These ages are similar to those known or inferred from some felsic piutonic units elsewhere in central Cape Breton Island and suggest that latest Cambrian to earliest Ordovician igneous activity was widespread in the Bras d'Or terrane. The new dates also suggest that stratigraphic and structural relationships in the Boisdale Hills arc more complex than previously interpreted. The dated rhyolite and other volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the northern Bourinot belt in the Boisdale Hills were previously included in undivided Middle Cambrian Bourinot Group. In the southern Bourinot belt, the Bourinot Group was subdivided into the Eskasoni, Dugald, and Gregwa formations. The Eskasoni Formation is dominantly a bimodal volcanic suite with petrological characteristics indicative of origin in a continental within-plate tectonic setting. Its present contacts, both with adjacent older metamorphic and plutonic rocks and with the apparently overlying fossiliferous Dugald and volcanogenic Gregwa formations, are faulted. Our new mapping demonstrates that the Eskasoni, Dugald and Gregwa formations can be extended into the central Bourinot belt where they were previously undivided. However, continuity cannot be demonstrated between these Middle Cambrian units and the dated volcanic and associated sedimentary units in the northern Bourinot belt Hence, assuming that both U-Pb and fossil ages are correct, our interpretation is that the Upper Cambrian -Lower Ordovician Northern Boisdale Hills volcanic unit is younger than the Bourinot Group, although petrochemical data suggest that it formed in a similar tectonic regime. The presence in the Bourinot belt of fauna characteristic of the Acado-Baltic faunal province appears to tie the Bras d'Or terrane to other Avalonian (peri-Gondwanan) terrenes. However, the Bras d'Or terrane differs from the adjacent Mira terrane which includes Lower as well as Middle and Upper Cambrian units and lacks volcanic and plutonic rocks of this age. RÉSUMÉ De nouvelles données U-Pb (zircon) provenant de la partie nord des collines Boisdale montrent que la rhyolite sur l'ile Long et le syénogranite du pluton du mont Cameron à proximité ont des âges similaires, de 505 ± 3 Ma et 509 ± 2 Ma respectivement. Ces âges sont similaires à ceux connus ou supposés pour quelques unités plutoniques felsiques ailleurs dans le centre de l'ile-du-Cap-Breton, et suggèrent que l'activité ignée de la fin du Cambrien au début de l'Ordovicien etait répandue dans le terrain de Bras d'Or. Ces nouvelles datations suggèrent aussi que les relations stratigraphiques et structurales dans les collines Boisdale sont plus complexes que ne le montraient les interprétations antérieures. La rhyolite datée et d'autres roches volcaniques et sédimentaires de la partie nord de la ceinture de Bourinot dans les monts Boisdale étaicnt auparavant incluses dans le Groupe de Bourinot non divisé, du Cambrien moyen. Dans la partie sud de la ceinture de Bourinot, le Groupe de Bourinot était divisé en formations d'Eskasoni, de Dugald et de Gregwa. La Formation d'Eskasoni est principalement une suité volcanique bimodale avec des caractéristiques pétrologiques indiquant un environnement tectonique intracontinental. Ses contacts actuels, à la fois avec les roches métamorphiques et plutoniques plus vieilles et avec les formations apparemment susjacentes de Dugald, fossilifere, et de Gregwa, volcanique, sont failles. Notre nouvelle cartographic montre que les formations d'Eskasoni, de Dugald et de Gregwa peuvent être distinguees dans le centre de la ceinture de Bourinot où elles ne l'étaient pas auparavant. Toutefois, on ne peut pas démontrer de continuité entre ces unités du Cambrien moyen et les volcanites datées et les unités sédimentaires associées dans la partie nord de la ceinture de Bourinot. Ainsi, en assumant que les ages U-Pb et palcbntologiques sont corrects, notre interprétation est que cette unité volcanique du Cambrien tardif - Ordovicien inférieur du nord des collines Boisdale soit plus jeune que le Groupe de Bourinot, quoique les données pétrologiques suggèrent qu'elle se soit formée dans un environnement tectonique similaire. La présence dans la ceinture de Bourinot de fossiles caractéristiques de la province faunique acado-baltique semble relier le terrain de Bras d'Or aux autres terrains avaloniens (péri-Gondwana). Toutefois, le terrain de Bras d'Or diffère du terrain adjacent de Mint qui comprend des unités du Cambrien infeérieur autant que moyen et supérieur et ne présente pas de roches volcaniques et plutoniques de cet âge. [Traduit par la rédaction]
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    University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB ; 1999
    In:  Atlantic Geology Vol. 35, No. 3 ( 1999-10-01)
    In: Atlantic Geology, University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB, Vol. 35, No. 3 ( 1999-10-01)
    Abstract: A tonalite dyke in the Benacadie Brook Formation in the Boisdale Hills of central Cape Breton Island yielded a U-Pb (zircon) age of 564.5 ± 5.1 Ma, interpreted to be the age of intrusion. The age is identical within error to the U-Pb (zircon) age of 564 +3/-2 Ma previously reported for a granodiorite sample from the nearby Shunacadie Pluton. Based on geographic proximity and identical age, as well as petrological similarities, the tonalite dyke is interpreted to be comagmatic with the granodiorite. Although the new date does not provide further constraint on the age of the Benacadie Brook Formation, it affirms the importance of ca. 560 Ma plutonism in the Bras d'Or terrene of Cape Breton Island. RÉSUMÉ Un dyke de tonalite intrusive dans la formation de Benacadie Brook, dans les collines du centre de l’ile du Cap-Breton, a révèlé une datation au U-Pb (au zircon) de 564.5 ± 5.1 m.a. Cette datation est la même que celle obtenue au U-Pb (au zircon) de 564 +3/-2 m.a. signalee précéiemment pour un echantillon de granodiorite de la formation plutonique adjacente de Shunacadie. Compte tenu de la proximité g & jgraphique, du même âge et d'autres similitudes pétrologiques, ce dyke de tonalite est repute appartenir a la mfime province petrographique que la granodiorite. Bien que cette nouvelle datation ne donne pas d'autres précisions sur l’âge de la formation de Benacadie Brook, elle n'en établit pas moins I'importance de l'activité plutonique survenue dans le terrene du Bras d'Or sur l’ile du Cap-Breton il y a environ 560 m.a. Traduit par la rédaction
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    In: Atlantic Geology, University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB, Vol. 48 ( 2012-09-26), p. 97-123
    Abstract: The Late Silurian Landry Brook and Dickie Brook plutons and Charlo plutonic suite underlie a combined area of approximately 80 km2 in the northeastern part of the Ganderian Tobique-Chaleur tectonostratigraphic belt in northern New Brunswick. The Landry Brook pluton is divided into three units: gabbro to quartz diorite, quartz monzodiorite to monzogranite, and monzogranite. A sample from the quartz monzodiorite unit yielded a U-Pb (zircon) crystallization age of 419.63 ± 0.23 Ma. A granodioritic stock located near the Landry Brook pluton has yielded an age of 400.7 ± 0.4 Ma, indicating that it is a younger unrelated body, herein referred to as the Blue Mountain Granodiorite (new name). The Dickie Brook pluton also consists of three units: leucogabbro to quartz gabbro, diorite to quartz diorite and quartz monzodiorite to monzogranite. Two samples from the monzogranite unit yielded U-Pb (zircon) crystallization ages of 418 ± 1 Ma and 418.1 ± 1.3 Ma. The Charlo plutonic suite is a group of small plutons and dykes, located west of the Dickie Brook and Landry Brook plutons and consists mainly of diabase, quartz monzonite to monzogranite, rhyolite porphyry, and dacite porphyry. Chemical trends indicate that the quartz monzodiorite to monzogranite unit of the Landry Brook pluton, all of the units of the Dickie Brook pluton, and the quartz monzodiorite to monzogranite unit of the Charlo plutonic suite, as well as the volcanic host rocks of the Bryant Point and Benjamin formations, are co-magmatic. They formed following slab break-off and extension in the waning stages of the Salinic orogeny, which resulted from the collision of Ganderia and Laurentia. In contrast, the dacite porphyry of the Charlo plutonic suite may be cogenetic with the younger Blue Mountain Granodiorite and related to the collision of Avalonia with Laurentia.RÉSUMÉLes plutons des ruisseaux Landry et Dickie et le cortège plutonique de Charlo, du Silurien tardif, recouvrent une superficie totale d’environ 80 km 2 dans la partie nord-est du domaine tectonostratigraphique gandérien Tobique-Chaleur, dans le nord du Nouveau-Brunswick. Le pluton du ruisseau Landry se compose de trois unités : du gabbro à de la diorite quartzique, de la monzodiorite quartzique au monzogranite, et du monzogranite. Un échantillon de l’unité de monzodiorite quartzique a produit un âge de cristallisation de 419,63 ± 0,23 Ma par la méthode de datation U-Pb (sur zircon). Un bloc de granodiorite à proximité du pluton du ruisseau Landry a produit un âge de 400,7 ± 0,4 Ma, ce qui indiquerait qu’il s’agit d’un corps de formation plus récente et non relié, désigné ici comme la granodiorite de Blue Mountain (nouveau nom). Le pluton du ruisseau Dickie comprend lui aussi trois unités : du leucogabbro à du gabbro quartzique, de la diorite à de la diorite quartzique, et de la monzodiorite quartzique à du monzogranite. Deux échantillons de monzogranite ont produit des âges de cristallisation de 418 ± 1 Ma et de 418,1 ± 1,3 Ma, selon la méthode de datation U-Pb (sur zircon). Le cortège plutonique de Charlo est un groupe de plutons et de dykes de petite taille, situé à l’ouest des plutons du ruisseau Dickie et du ruisseau Landry, et il se compose de diabase, de monzonite quartzique à du monzogranite, de porphyre rhyolitique, et de porphyre dacitique. Les tendances chimiques indiquent une nature comagmatique en ce qui concerne l’unité de monzodiorite quartzique au monzogranite du pluton du ruisseau Landry, la totalité des unités du pluton du ruisseau Dickie, ainsi que l’unité monzodiorite quartzique au monzogranite du cortège plutonique de Charlo, tout comme pour les roches volcaniques encaissantes des Formations Bryant Point et Benjamin. Ces structures sont apparues après la rupture de la plaque et son extension aux derniers stades de l’orogenèse salinique, provoquée par la collision des anciens continents de Gandérie et de Laurentie. Par contraste, le porphyre dacitique du cortège plutonique de Charlo peut s’être formé sous les mêmes conditions que celles ayant présidé à l’apparition de la granodiorite plus récente de Blue Mountain et être associé à la collision des anciens continents d’Avalon et de Laurentie.[Traduit par la redaction]
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    Publication Date: 2012
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    Canadian Science Publishing ; 2020
    In:  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 57, No. 10 ( 2020-10), p. 1220-1237
    In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 57, No. 10 ( 2020-10), p. 1220-1237
    Abstract: The non-marine Horseshoe Canyon Formation (HCFm, southern Alberta) yields taxonomically diverse, late Campanian to middle Maastrichtian dinosaur assemblages that play a central role in documenting dinosaur evolution, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography leading up to the end-Cretaceous extinction. Here, we present high-precision U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS ages and the first calibrated chronostratigraphy for the HCFm using zircon grains from (1) four HCFm bentonites distributed through 129 m of section, (2) one bentonite from the underlying Bearpaw Formation, and (3) a bentonite from the overlying Battle Formation that we dated previously. In its type area, the HCFm ranges in age from 73.1–68.0 Ma. Significant paleoenvironmental and climatic changes are recorded in the formation, including (1) a transition from a warm-and-wet deltaic setting to a cooler, seasonally wet-dry coastal plain at 71.5 Ma, (2) maximum transgression of the Drumheller Marine Tongue at 70.896 ± 0.048 Ma, and (3) transition to a warm-wet alluvial plain at 69.6 Ma. The HCFm’s three mega-herbivore dinosaur assemblage zones track these changes and are calibrated as follows: Edmontosaurus regalis – Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis zone, 73.1–71.5 Ma; Hypacrosaurus altispinus – Saurolophus osborni zone, 71.5–69.6 Ma; and Eotriceratops xerinsularis zone, 69.6–68.2 Ma. The Albertosaurus Bonebed — a monodominant assemblage of tyrannosaurids in the Tolman Member — is assessed an age of 70.1 Ma. The unusual triceratopsin, Eotriceratops xerinsularis, from the Carbon Member, is assessed an age of 68.8 Ma. This chronostratigraphy is useful for refining correlations with dinosaur-bearing upper Campanian–middle Maastrichtian units in Alberta and elsewhere in North America.
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    ISSN: 0008-4077 , 1480-3313
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    Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
    Publication Date: 2020
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    In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 48, No. 2 ( 2011-02), p. 161-185
    Abstract: The Middle Mountain Metamorphic Domain of the Montana Metasedimentary Terrane, northwestern Wyoming Craton, within the northwestern Tobacco Root Mountains, mainly comprises migmatized tonalitic gneiss interlayered with amphibolitic (hornblende) gneiss, both of which are cut by metamorphosed mafic rocks. Together, these gneisses are defined as Middle Mountain Gneiss. Archean tonalitic gneiss from west of, and amphibolitic gneiss from east of, the Bismark Fault give, from chemically and air-abraded zircon grains, U–Pb ID–TIMS ages of 3325.5 ± 1.7 and 3340 Ma, respectively. These results reflect primary magmatic ages and show that the Middle Mountain Gneiss extends into the northern area of the Central Fault Block, between the Bismark and Mammoth faults. Older crustal processes in the tonalitic gneiss are evidenced by inherited grains, the oldest of which is  〉 3460 Ma. A metabasite hosted in tonalitic gneiss in the Bismark Fault selvage zone yields a zircon age of 2468 Ma, which is interpreted as the time of metamorphism. This date and other ca. 2470 Ma dates known in the region reflect a series of thermotectonic events designated here as the Beaverhead – Tobacco Root Orogeny. Geochemical evidence in the Central Fault Block metabasites suggests that their  〉 2470 Ma precursors evolved in a back-arc – arc-rift setting, whereas their equivalents west of the Bismark Fault were largely mid-ocean ridge basalt-related tholeiites and east of the Central Fault Block were back-arc tholeiites showing some continental affinity. The metabasite was metamorphosed, deformed, and intruded by pegmatite at 1756 Ma during the Big Sky Orogeny. This orogenic event also produced new zircon growth in Archean tonalitic gneiss. Monazite with an age of 75 Ma, found at one location, reflects nearby intrusion of the Cretaceous Tobacco Root Batholith.
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    In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 48, No. 2 ( 2011-02), p. 371-387
    Abstract: U–Pb zircon geochronological investigations at Battle Harbour, in the Pinware terrane, eastern Grenville Province show that a cross-bedded psammitic rock from Battle Island was deposited after 1200 Ma and prior to Grenvillian orogenesis, as part of a package of psammitic, semi-pelitic and calc-silicate rocks. This represents a major finding as no previous data had indicated any supracrustal-rock deposition after ca. 1500 Ma in the interior eastern Grenville Province. The age is comparable to that obtained from supracrustal units of minor extent elsewhere in the interior Grenville Province, indicating that change in crustal level in these regions was modest during Grenvillian orogenesis. Grenvillian metamorphism at amphibolite facies occurred at 1030 ± 4 Ma, based on evidence from a concordant mafic rock within the supracrustal assemblage that is interpreted to be a sill. Grenvillian orogenesis at Battle Harbour was accompanied by abundant pegmatite injection over an extended period, as indicated by cross-cutting relationships and various states of deformation displayed by the pegmatites. An amazonite-bearing pegmatite has an age of 1024 ± 3 Ma. An even younger, cross-cutting pegmatite contains only inherited zircon grains.
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    Publication Date: 2011
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    Canadian Science Publishing ; 2018
    In:  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 55, No. 9 ( 2018-09), p. 1079-1102
    In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 55, No. 9 ( 2018-09), p. 1079-1102
    Abstract: Three stages of carbonate-platform development are preserved in the upper Turinian – lower Chatfieldian succession of the Ottawa Group in the Ottawa Embayment and represent deposition along the Late Ordovician Taconic foreland interior of paleo-southern Laurentia. Compared with contemporary stratigraphy in the adjacent northern Appalachian (southern Ontario, New York state) and western Quebec basins, the intermediate Stage 2 succession, which brackets the Turinian–Chatfieldian boundary, preserves embayment-specific stratigraphic patterns. These include: (i) dramatic west-to-east thickening of the upper Turinian Watertown Formation that defines differential subsidence along the present axis of the embayment, (ii) post-Watertown base-level fall defined by appearance of shoreface siliciclastics, (iii) early Chatfieldian marine transgression represented by the proposed L’Orignal Formation that is coeval with but lithologically distinct from the Selby Formation in the northern Appalachian Basin, and (iv) platform segmentation that resulted in a depositional mosaic of shallow banks (Rockland Formation) and equivalent deeper water mico-seaways (lower Hull Formation). The latter event immediately follows accumulation of the Millbrig bentonite, here dated at 453.36 ± 0.38 Ma. Bracketing these local stratigraphic patterns are the bounding stages (1 and 3) represented by the upper Turinian Lowville Formation and middle Chatfieldian Hull Formation, respectively, that contain facies attributes in common with the adjacent basins and characterize inter-regional depositional systems of first warm, then cooler oceanographic conditions. Stage 2 identifies a structurally controlled transition between these end-member stages: a far-field response in the foreland interior, localized along the axis of a late Precambrian fault system, to contemporary change in subsidence rates and tectonomagmatic events along the Laurentian margin.
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    In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 48, No. 2 ( 2011-02), p. 187-204
    Abstract: The Neoarchean Pukaskwa batholith consists of pre-, syn-, and post-tectonic phases emplaced over an interval of 50 million years. Pre-tectonic phases are broadly synvolcanic and have a high-Al tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) affinity interpreted to reflect derivation by partial melting of basaltic crust at lower crustal or upper mantle depths. Minor syn-tectonic phases slightly post-date volcanism and have geochemical characteristics suggesting some involvement or interaction with an ultramafic (mantle) source component. Magmatic emplacement of pre- and syn-tectonic phases occurred in the midcrust at paleopressures of 550–600 MPa and these components of the batholith are thought to be representative of the midcrust underlying greenstone belts during their development. Subsequent to emplacement of the syntectonic phases, and likely at approximately 2680 Ma, the Pukaskwa batholith was uplifted as a structural dome relative to flanking greenstone belts synchronously with ongoing regional sinistral transpressive deformation. The driving force for vertical tectonism is interpreted to be density inversion (Rayleigh–Taylor-type instabilities) involving denser greenstone belts and underlying felsic plutonic crust. The trigger for initiation of this process is interpreted to be an abrupt change in the rheology of the midcrust attributed to introduction of heat from the mantle attendant with slab breakoff or lithospheric delamination following the cessation of subduction. This process also led to partial melting of the intermediate to felsic midcrust generating post-tectonic granitic phases at approximately 2667 Ma. We propose that late density inversion-driven vertical tectonics is an inevitable consequence of horizontal (plate) tectonic processes associated with greenstone belt development within the Superior Province.
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    Canadian Science Publishing ; 1999
    In:  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 36, No. 1 ( 1999-01-20), p. 15-22
    In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 36, No. 1 ( 1999-01-20), p. 15-22
    Abstract: U-Pb zircon and monazite dates for granulite-facies basement xenoliths from the Popes Harbour dyke on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia provide strong evidence that the Meguma terrane overlies Avalonian basement. Slightly discordant (1.6%), "facetted" zircons from a mafic granulite indicate a minimum crystallization age of ~629 Ma, with near-concordant (0.7%) rounded zircons suggesting a maximum age for the last metamorphic event affecting the zircons at ~575 Ma. Two near-concordant (-0.9 to 0.4%) monazite fractions from a pelitic granulite indicate a major metamorphic disturbance at 378 ± 1 Ma, ~10 Ma prior to dyke entrainment and coincident with Meguma regional metamorphism. Projections from 378 Ma through four highly discordant (15-42%) metapelite zircon fractions give provenance ages between 880 and 1050 Ma and two others project to maximum ages of ~1530 Ma. Unlike Meguma sediments which lack Grenvillian-age (~1 Ga) detrital zircons and are dominated by ~2000 Ma detrital zircons, these dates indicate a dominantly Grenvillian-age provenance for the pelitic xenoliths. The "Avalonian" igneous, metamorphic, and provenance ages from the xenoliths suggest the Meguma rests on Avalonian basement. Because Avalonian sediments need a Grenvillian provenance and Meguma sediments lack such a source but require a [Formula: see text] 2.0 Ga component missing in the xenoliths, it seems unlikely the Meguma was deposited on Avalonian crust. Thus the dating places on firmer footing the suggestion from earlier structural, seismic, and geochemical work that the Meguma structurally overlies Avalonian terrane. Thrusting occurred between the time of earliest Meguma deformation (~400 Ma) and intrusion of the xenolith-bearing dyke (~370 Ma).
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