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TitleDetrital mineral provenance analyses from the Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Alberta and the Holocene Portneuf river delta, North Shore of Quebec
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AuthorPe-Piper, G; Piper, D J WORCID logo; Blowick, A; Gomez Garcia, G; Wallace, K; Sangster, C
SourceGeological Survey of Canada, Open File 8761, 2021, 391 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/327838 Open Access logo Open Access
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Year2021
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Documentopen file
Lang.English
Mediaon-line; digital
File formatreadme
File formatpdf; rtf; xlsx (Microsoft® Excel®)
ProvinceAlberta; Quebec
NTS22C/11; 73E; 73F; 73K; 73L; 73M; 73N; 74C; 74D; 74E; 74F; 74K; 74L; 74M; 74N; 75C; 75D; 83E; 83F; 83G; 83H; 83I; 83J; 83K; 83L; 83M; 83N; 83O; 83P; 84; 85A; 85B; 85C; 85D
AreaRivière Portneuf; Rivière du Sault aux Cochons; Fort McMurray; Fort McKay; Peace River
Lat/Long WENS -69.1000 -69.0500 48.7333 48.6333
Lat/Long WENS-120.0000 -108.0000 61.0000 53.0000
Subjectsgeochemistry; mineralogy; regional geology; sedimentology; surficial geology/geomorphology; Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; Holocene; Lower Cretaceous; Aptian; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; deltaic sediments; sands; paleodrainage; provenance; isotopic studies; lead isotope ratios; feldspar; mineral assemblages; heavy mineral analyses; detrital minerals; petrographic analyses; electron microscope analyses; clasts; McMurray Formation; Ancestral Sable River; Western Interior Seaway; Trans-Hudson Orogen; Grenville Province; Mohawk B-93 Well; Scotian Basin; Appalachian Province; alluvial sediments; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Jurassic; Precambrian; Proterozoic
Illustrationstables; geoscientific sketch maps; photomicrographs; plots; pie charts; ternary diagrams; photographs; schematic representations; seismic profiles; profiles; stratigraphic charts; lithologic sections; correlation sections; location maps; geochronological charts
ProgramGeoscience for New Energy Supply (GNES) Program Coordination
Released2021 01 25
AbstractThe dispersion of sandy sediment by the early Cretaceous Sable River has been further investigated by detailed mineralogical study of (a) two samples from the Aptian McMurray Formation of Alberta and (b) a Holocene deltaic deposit on the North Shore of the St Lawrence Estuary. Samples from Alberta were to test the hypothesis that Aptian diversion of the Sable River led to it flowing to the Western Interior Seaway, contributing sand to the McMurray Formation. Pb-isotopes in K-feldspar show that most of the first cycle feldspars in the McMurray Formation were derived from the local Trans-Hudson Orogen. The heavy mineral assemblage, particularly the abundance of staurolite and paucity of chromite, is different from that of the Sable River. The Holocene deltaic sand was analysed to identify distinctive heavy minerals from that part of the Grenville terrane. Garnets are similar to enigmatic garnets from the Jurassic of the Mohawk B-93 well, where Pb-isotopes on K-feldspar also suggest a Grenville source. Titania minerals with abundant quartz inclusions, known from both the Scotian Basin and the McMurray Formation, were not present in the Holocene sample and their provenance significance remains enigmatic.
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This Open File provides data on diagnostic minerals in sandstones that can be used for comparison with previous studies in the offshore Scotian Basin to understand sources of sand to petroleum reservoir rocks.
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