| Title | Were Jurassic tholeiitic lavas originally widespread in southeastern Canada? a test of the broad terrane hypothesis |
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| Author | Pe-Piper, G; Piper, D J W |
| Source | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences vol. 36, no. 9, 1999 p. 1509-1516, https://doi.org/10.1139/e99-059 |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Alt Series | Geological Survey of Canada, Contribution Series 1998259 |
| Publisher | Canadian Science Publishing |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Eastern offshore region; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Quebec |
| NTS | 1K; 1L; 1M; 1N; 2C; 2D; 2E; 2F; 11; 12A; 12B; 12C; 12D; 12E; 2F; 2G; 2H; 21A; 21B; 21G; 21H; 21I; 21J; 21O; 21P; 22A; 22B; 22G; 22H |
| Lat/Long WENS | -68.0000 -50.0000 50.0000 43.0000 |
| Subjects | general geology; geochemistry; igneous and metamorphic petrology; structural geology; magmatism; terranes; tholeiites; basins; lavas; erosion; basalts; crustal uplift; magmas; dykes; Jurassic |
| Illustrations | location maps; geological sketch maps; cross-sections, stratigraphic; graphs; tables |
| Program | NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada |
| Released | 1999 09 01 |
| Abstract | Two competing models have been proposed for Early Jurassic magmatism on the eastern North American margin. The "broad terrane" hypothesis argues that tholeiitic lavas were extruded over a large area and
later eroded. Alternatively, the lavas were extruded only in the basins in which they now outcrop. We compare the stratigraphy and geochemistry of the tholeiitic lavas and dykes from Atlantic Canada with those of the type section of the Newark basin
and use this correlation to test these two models. The earliest high-Ti quartz tholeiites in the type section are represented by lavas in the Fundy basin (North Mountain Basalt), Scotian basin, and eastern Grand Banks and by the Shelburne and
Ministers Island dykes. Spatial and temporal geochemical variations in the North Mountain Basalt are mirrored by the Shelburne dyke, strengthening the case that the two were geochemically related. Basalts in Grand Manan Island, on the footwall of the
Grand Manan fault that bounds the Fundy basin, are geochemically similar to the lowest North Mountain Basalt flow. These observations suggest that the earliest basalt flows were originally more extensive and have become restricted by later uplift and
erosion. However, younger magmas in the Newark basin are represented only by the Caraquet, Anticosti, and Avalon dykes in Atlantic Canada, and corresponding lavas were never deposited in the Fundy basin or eastern Grand Banks. Thus, Jurassic
tholeiitic lava distribution lies in between the predictions of the "broad terrane" and the "restricted basin" models. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 210280 |
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