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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 8938

Petrography of bedrock and ice-rafted granules: Flemish Cap, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

G. Pe-Piper, D.J.W. Piper, J. Nagle, and P. Opra

© His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2022

Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.4095/331224

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Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., Nagle, J., and Opra, P. 2022. Petrography of bedrock and ice-rafted granules: Flemish Cap, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8938, 
1 .zip file. https://doi.org/10.4095/331224

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Contents

This 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.

Directory structure

of_8938_readme.rtf (this file)
of_8938.pdf (report)
of_8938_Appendix 1 & 2_Flemish Cap.pdf (BSE images, EDS mineral analyses, microphotographs of granules)
Appendix 3 2001043_008_granpet.xlsx (petrographic data for granules in core 2001043-008)

Author contact information

D.J.W. Piper (david.piper@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
1 Challenger Drive 
P.O. Box 1006
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia  
B2Y 4A2

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