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TitleEvaluating the potential for three-dimensional structural modelling of the Archean and Paleoproterozoic rocks of central Baffin Island, Nunavut
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Authorde Kemp, E AORCID logo; Corrigan, DORCID logo; St-Onge, M R
SourceGeological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) no. 2001-C24, 2001, 22 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/212255 Open Access logo Open Access
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Year2001
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Documentserial
Lang.English
Mediapaper; on-line; digital; CD-ROM
RelatedThis publication is contained in Current Research 2001, winter release
File formatpdf
ProvinceNunavut
NTS37A; 37D
AreaBaffin Island; Melville Peninsula
Lat/Long WENS-76.0000 -68.0000 70.0000 68.0000
Subjectstectonics; structural geology; general geology; Archean; mafic volcanic rocks; plutonic rocks; klippen; gneisses; tectonic environments; modelling, structural; deformation; boundaries; lithology; folding; faults, thrust; basement geology; Trans-Hudson Orogen; Foxe Fold Belt; Piling Group; Bravo Lake Formation; Foxe Basin; Cumberland Batholith; Boundaries; Precambrian; Proterozoic
Illustrationssketch maps; 3-D models; tables
ProgramCentral Baffin 4-D Project
Released2001 01 01
AbstractThe Archean and Paleoproterozoic rocks of western central Baffin Island are being mapped at 1:100 000 scale at the exposed topographic surface. This data is being used to create three-dimensional (3D) structural models of key lithotectonic boundaries and associated deformation fabrics. Initial field investigations indicate extensive base- ment involvement during Paleoproterozoic deformation, along with folding and thrusting of cover rocks. Three-dimensional modelling of the complex structures produced by these processes would help extend our geo- logical interpretations, now confined to 2D models in the form of geological maps, into the subsurface, thus helping to constrain the tectonic framework in this northern margin of the Trans-Hudson Orogen. Three-dimensional mod- elling activity is focused on extending the geometry of the basement (Archean) / cover (Paleoproterozoic) bound- ary, vergence mapping of regional folds and faults developed in the upper sequence of the Piling Group (Longstaff Bluff Formation), and the high-resolution 3D mapping of the base of the mafic volcanic Bravo Lake Formation.
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