Circa 2.3‐Ga Magmatism of the Arrowsmith Orogeny, Uranium City Region, Western Churchill Craton, Canada

The western margin of the Churchill craton records a complex history of Paleoproterozoic tectonism. The most prominent of these tectonic events is recorded within the 2.0–1.9‐Ga Taltson‐Thelon magmatic zone. The widespread magmatism and high‐grade metamorphism of this zone, especially in Alberta and...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of geology 2007-03, Vol.115 (2), p.181-195
Hauptverfasser: Hartlaub, R. P., Heaman, L. M., Chacko, T., Ashton, K. E.
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Zusammenfassung:The western margin of the Churchill craton records a complex history of Paleoproterozoic tectonism. The most prominent of these tectonic events is recorded within the 2.0–1.9‐Ga Taltson‐Thelon magmatic zone. The widespread magmatism and high‐grade metamorphism of this zone, especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan, obscures an older tectonic belt, the ca. 2.4–2.3‐Ga Arrowsmith Orogeny. In the Uranium City region of northwestern Saskatchewan, a suite of Paleoproterozoic granites represent a magmatic product of this orogen. U‐Pb zircon crystallization ages were identified for the Macintosh Bay monzogranite ( \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $2330\pm 5$ \end{document} Ma), the Gunnar monzogranite ( \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $2321\pm 3$ \end{document} Ma), the Geebee Lake tonalite ( \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $2320\pm 44$ \end{document} Ma), the Yahyah Lake granite ( \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage
ISSN:0022-1376
1537-5269
DOI:10.1086/510641