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Scientific paper
Oct 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993e%26psl.119..599c&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 119, no. 4, p. 599-615
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Batholiths, Geochemistry, Gold, Mineralogy, Paleomagnetism, Petrology, Volcanoes, Geology, Magnetic Poles, Minerals, Ontario
Scientific paper
We report paleomagnetic results from (1) largely unaltered batholiths and (2) sheared and altered units in the Archean Red Lake greenstone belt, a major gold-producing region in the Uchi subprovince of northwestern Ontario. Group 1 includes the Hammell Lake, Killala Baird, Trout Lake and Little Vermilion Lake batholiths, which were intruded between 2730 and 2700 Ma ago (U/Pb, zircon). Group 2 includes the Howey diorite, the Dome Stock, and dikes and andesites from the Dickenson mine. These units, from the mineralized deformation zones (DZs) between the batholiths, were sheared and hydrothermally altered in the same event that caused gold mineralization in supracrustal units. The batholiths carry a stable reversed remanence (RLR), with D = 159 deg, I = -74 deg (k = 20, alpha(sub 95) = 16 deg, N = 4 units, 14 sites). RLR has high coercivities, unblocking temperatures and remanence intensities an appears to be a primary thermal remanence dating from approximately 2700 ma. The altered units from the gold-bearing Dzs carrying a different remanence (RLG), with D = 180 deg, I = -57 deg (k = 23, alpha (sub 95) = 3 deg, N = 3 units, 6 sites). RLG also has relatively high coercivities and unblocking temperatures but its magnetization intensities are 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than those of RLR. Opaque minerals and silicates observed in thin section are highly altered. RLG is therfore believed to be a chemical or thermochemical remanence acquired approximately 2580 Ma ago during the late stages of cooling and gold mineralization. Seeing as RLG characterizes the shear zone rocks but is absent from unaltered rocks outside the DZs, it could be used as a rapid prospecting tool in delineating areas of alteration and posible mineralization. The palepoles for RLR (approximately 2700 Ma) and RLG (approximately 2580 Ma) link with those of the Shelley Lake granite (2580 Ma, Ar-40/Ar-39, hornblende and biotite) and the Matachewan/Hearst dikes (2450 Ma, U/Pb, zircon and baddeleyite). The sense of motion on the late Archean-early Proterozoic apparent polar wander path for Laurentia, as defined by this sequence of pale poles, is opposite to that previously accepted.
Constanzo-Alvarez Vincenzo
Dunlop David J.
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