| Title | Thermal regimes and diamond stability in the Archean Slave Province, northwestern Canadian Shield, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Thompson, P H; Judge, A S; Charbonneau, B W; Carson, J M; Thomas, M D |
| Source | Current Research/Recherches en cours; by Geological Survey of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research no. 1996-E, 1996 p. 135-146, https://doi.org/10.4095/207882  Open Access |
| Year | 1996 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Current Research
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| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 75L; 75M; 85I; 85J; 85O; 85P; 76D; 76E; 86A; 86B; 86G; 86H |
| Area | Canadian Shield; Contwoyto Lake; Winter Lake; Lac de Gras; Yamba Lake; Mackay Lake; Yellowknife; Gordon Lake; Cross Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -113.0000 -111.0000 65.0000 64.0000 |
| Subjects | igneous and metamorphic petrology; geophysics; thermal regimes; radiogenic heat; diamond; phase equilibria; heat flow; geothermal gradient; gravity anomalies; geophysical surveys; modelling;
kimberlites; lithology; plutonic rocks; granites; granodiorites; tonalites; diorites; igneous rocks; metavolcanic rocks; metasedimentary rocks; gneisses; migmatites; metamorphic rocks; Archean; Slave Province; Yellowknife Supergroup; Precambrian;
Proterozoic |
| Illustrations | sketch maps; gravity models; analyses |
| Released | 1996 08 01 |
| Abstract | The combination of apparent heat production values derived from airborne radiometric surveys with outcrop and laboratory measurements, for the area bounded by 62°-66°N and 110°-116°W, indicates an
arcuate zone (>30000 km2) with average heat production in excess of 2.5 µW/m3 and anomalies tens of kilometres across that exceed 5.0 µW/m3.
One-dimensional numerical models indicate that a lateral increase in average heat production in the upper
crust from 1.7 µW/m3 (surface heat flow = 40 mW/m2) to 3.0 µW/m3 (surface heat flow = 50 mW/m2) corresponds to a reduction in lithospheric thickness from 215 to 180 km and in the thickness of the potentially diamondiferous zone in the lowermost
lithosphere from 85 to 30 km.
According to a limited data set, kimberlite pipes close to or within heat production anomalies (Cross Lake, Yamba Lake) are significantly less diamondiferous than those near Lac de Gras. While many other factors may
be involved, the significance of crustal heat production with respect to diamond potential merits careful consideration. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 207882 |
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