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TitlePetrography of bedrock and ice-rafted granules: Flemish Cap, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador
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LicencePlease note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada supersedes any previous licences.
AuthorPe-Piper, GORCID logo; Piper, D J WORCID logo; Nagle, J; Opra, P
SourceGeological Survey of Canada, Open File 8938, 2022, 31 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/331224 Open Access logo Open Access
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Year2022
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Documentopen file
Lang.English
Mediaon-line; digital
RelatedThis publication is related to Provenance of Quaternary sands on Flemish Cap, offshore Island of Newfoundland
File formatreadme
File formatpdf; docx; rtf
ProvinceNewfoundland and Labrador; Eastern offshore region
Lat/Long WENS -50.0000 -40.0000 50.0000 47.0000
Subjectsmineralogy; soils science; petrography; bedrock geology; electron microscopy; lithology; clasts; Flemish Cap; Avalonian Rocks
Illustrationslocation maps; tables; pie charts
ProgramMarine Geoscience for Marine Spatial Planning
Released2022 12 21
AbstractThis Open File report provides petrographic information from a scanning electron microscope study of granules and small pebbles in four selected trawl samples from Flemish Cap. The mineral composition of the granules was determined by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and textures are shown in backscattered electron images (BSE). It complements Open File 8359 on the heavy mineral assemblage on Flemish Cap. Granules on the central shoals appear to be derived from outcropping Avalonian basement; those to the east and west are predominantly ice-rafted in origin. These data improve our understanding of the source of the voluminous sands on Flemish Cap and the characteristics of the Avalonian basement rocks on southern Flemish Cap.
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Technical description of small pebbles from the seafloor of Flemish Cap. They provide information on the sources of sand to this remote bank.
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