| Title | The ups and downs of the Canadian Shield: 1- preliminary results of apatite fission track analysis from Hudson Bay region |
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| Author | Pinet, N; Kohn, B P; Lavoie, D |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8110, 2016, 59 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/299248  Open Access |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is related to the following
publications |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Manitoba; Ontario; Northern offshore region; Nunavut |
| NTS | 32L; 32M; 32N; 33D; 33E; 33L; 43B; 43G; 43H; 54K; 54L; 45; 46 |
| Area | Hudson Bay; Southampton Island; Churchill; Moose River; Hudson Strait |
| Lat/Long WENS | -96.0000 -68.0000 71.0000 50.0000 |
| Subjects | structural geology; tectonics; igneous and metamorphic petrology; thermal history; thermal analyses; apatite; fission tracks; fission-track dates; sedimentary basins; basin analysis; basin evolution;
sedimentary rocks; hydrocarbons; hydrocarbon potential; gas wells; tectonic environments; tectonic interpretations; tectonic setting; Hudson Platform; Moose River Basin; Foxe Basin; Hudson Bay Basin; Hudson Strait Basin; Paleozoic; Devonian;
Silurian; Ordovician |
| Illustrations | location maps; models; tables; plots |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Hudson/Ungava Hydrocarbon source rocks |
| Released | 2016 11 02 |
| Abstract | The low-temperature (120-60°C) thermal history of seven samples from the Hudson Bay region has been investigated using apatite fission-track (AFT) analysis. Apatite grains from six Precambrian rock
samples from the surface or the bottom of hydrocarbon-targeted wells and from one sample belonging to a thin Upper Ordovician sandstone unit at the base of the Paleozoic succession were analysed. All apatite fissiontrack (AFT) ages are younger than
the age of their host rocks indicating that fission tracks experienced significant post-crystallisation or deposition annealing and samples were subjected to temperatures > 60°C. The track length distributions suggest slow cooling. AFT pooled ages
range from 215.1 ± 15.0 to 462.7 ± 29.9 Ma. The sample from Akpatok Island, in Hudson Strait has the youngest AFT age, suggesting that the exhumation history of this area may be different from the Hudson Bay Basin.
Inverse modeling of AFT data
provides an estimate of the maximum temperature experienced during the Paleozoic burial episode and, with much less accuracy, the timing of maximum heating. For the two wells that have both organic matter maturation and AFT data, the measured
vitrinite equivalent value is higher than that calculated reflectance using AFT inverse modeling results. AFT results from the Hudson Bay region are broadly in agreement with those reported for the southern Canadian Shield. However, the available
dataset is not sufficient to depict regional variations of maximum heating conditions, an issue that is critical for the hydrocarbon assessment of the area. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The low-temperature (~60-120°C) thermal history of seven samples from the Hudson Bay region has been investigated using apatite fission- track (AFT)
analysis. Inverse modeling of AFT data provides estimate of the maximum temperature experienced during the Paleozoic burial episode and, with much less accuracy, of the timing of maximum heating. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 299248 |
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