| Titre | Newmarket Till aquitard: optimum grain packing with a pore-filling calcite-rich cement |
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| Licence | Veuillez noter que la Licence du gouvernement
ouvert - Canada remplace toutes les licences antérieures. |
| Auteur | Kjarsgaard, B A ;
Knight, R D; Russell, H A J; Sharpe, D R; Crow, H; Olson, L |
| Source | Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario open house; par Russell, H A J; Ford, D; Priebe, E H; Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 8212,
2017 p. 22, https://doi.org/10.4095/299778  Accès
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| Année | 2017 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Réunion | Ontario Geological Survey and Geological Survey of Canada groundwater geoscience open house; Guelph; CA; mars 1-2, 2017 |
| Document | dossier public |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4095/299778 |
| Media | en ligne; numérique |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est contenue dans Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario open house |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| SNRC | 30M/13; 30M/14; 30M/15; 30M/16; 31C/04; 31D/01; 31D/02; 31D/03; 31D/04 |
| Région | Central Ontario; Newmarket; Aurora; Whitby; Toronto; Port Hope; Trenton |
| Lat/Long OENS | -80.0000 -77.7500 44.2500 43.7500 |
| Sujets | eau souterraine; dépôts glaciaires; tills; perméabilité; calcite; cimentation; repartition granulométrique; sables; silts; clastes; analyses minéralogiques; analyses par microscope électronique; Holocène;
Pléistocène; Till de Newmarket ; hydrogéologie; géologie des dépôts meubles/géomorphologie; minéralogie; sédimentologie; Phanérozoïque; Cénozoïque; Quaternaire |
| Programme | Géoscience des eaux souterraines , Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping |
| Programme | Géoscience des eaux souterraines , Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping |
| Diffusé | 2017 02 22 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
Newmarket Till is a stony, sandy (38%) silty (~47%) diamicton, which is of variable thickness (~1 - 69 m) and of widespread distribution (correlated with
Catfish Creek Till) in southern Ontario. The Newmarket Till has unusually high densities (2.2 - 2.4 g/cm3); elevated seismic velocities (Vp ~2600 m/s) determined by downhole geophysical studies are characteristic and the Till can be traced across the
region as a seismostratigraphic marker. As the Till is highly indurated and has low permeability, it forms a regional aquitard that confines underlying aquifers, and is also a basal aquitard for overlying aquifers (e.g. Oak Ridges Moraine). Given the
high sand content of this diamicton, the low permeability and indurated nature is surprising, and could be resultant from over-consolidation due to glacial loading, presence of a secondary cement, or both processes. Clasts larger than coarse gravel
consist of granitoids and limestone, however clasts smaller than coarse gravel are dominated by limestone, with rare granitoids. The mineral assemblage (in decreasing abundance) is quartz, calcite, K-feldspar, plagioclase, dolomite, amphibole and
clinopyroxene; these grains are comminuted and range in size from ~1000 micrometres to ~2 micrometres, leading to optimum packing. The intra-grain matrix is exceptionally fine (<1 micrometres, typically 0.25 - 0.50 micrometres) and not resolvable by
optical methods. Higher resolution SEM and FE-SEM backscattered electron and secondary electron images of the intra-grain matrix reveals a complex pore filling cement, with a very low percentage (<1%) of open pore space. The minerals comprising the
secondary cement are a challenge to analyze due to their very fine grain size and composition. Preliminary semiquantitative EDS analyses suggest they consist of calcite (CaCO3) and portlandite (Ca[OH]2), with minor phyllosilicates, and possibly
hydrated calcium-rich silicate minerals (CSH). The Ca-rich minerals cement the silt- to sand-sized mineral grains and larger clasts, and result in the Newmarket Till being highly indurated and of low permeability. The presence of calcite and
portlandite in a glaciogenic sediment cement is quite unusual. Additional analytical work is being undertaken to fully characterize the mineralogy of these Late Wisconsin / Holocene cements. |
| Sommaire | (Résumé en langage clair et simple, non publié)
Procès-verbaux pour la géoscience des eaux souterraines à échelle régionale Organisée par la Commission géologique de l'Ontario, la Commission
géologique du Canada et les géoscientifiques de Conservation Ontario. La journée portes ouvertes est prévue pour 2017-03-01 et 02. L'objectif est l'engagement du public et la diffusion de la géoscience dans le sud de l'Ontario au cours de la dernière
année. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 299778 |
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