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Ketchum, J. W. F., Dunning, G. R., Culshaw, N. G. (1997) U–Pb geochronologic constraints on Paleoproterozoic orogenesis in the northwestern Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34 (8) 1072-1088 doi:10.1139/e17-087

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TitleU–Pb geochronologic constraints on Paleoproterozoic orogenesis in the northwestern Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada
JournalCanadian Journal of Earth Sciences
AuthorsKetchum, J. W. F.Author
Dunning, G. R.Author
Culshaw, N. G.Author
Year1997 (August 1)Volume34
Issue8
PublisherCanadian Science Publishing
DOIdoi:10.1139/e17-087Search in ResearchGate
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Full ReferenceKetchum, J. W. F., Dunning, G. R., Culshaw, N. G. (1997) U–Pb geochronologic constraints on Paleoproterozoic orogenesis in the northwestern Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34 (8) 1072-1088 doi:10.1139/e17-087
Plain TextKetchum, J. W. F., Dunning, G. R., Culshaw, N. G. (1997) U–Pb geochronologic constraints on Paleoproterozoic orogenesis in the northwestern Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34 (8) 1072-1088 doi:10.1139/e17-087
In(1997, August) Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 34 (8) Canadian Science Publishing
Abstract/Notes A 45 km wide, shear-zone-bounded segment of the northwestern Makkovik Province, Labrador, is underlain by Archean gneisses derived from the adjacent Nain craton. This lithotectonic block (Kaipokok domain) was reworked at high metamorphic grade, overthrust by supracrustal sequences (Lower Aillik and Moran Lake groups), and intruded by granitoid plutons during the Paleoproterozoic. Initial amphibolite-facies reworking of the Kaipokok domain at 1896 ± 6 Ma is indicated by U–Pb ages of metamorphic zircon from a foliated Kikkertavak metadiabase dyke. This is one of the oldest Paleoproterozoic tectonic events dated thus far in northeast Laurentia and may be linked with ca. 1890 Ma plutonism documented elsewhere in the Kaipokok domain. Intrusion of granitoid plutons at [Formula: see text], 1877 ± 5, and [Formula: see text] in the Kaipokok Bay area postdates early thick- and thin-skinned thrusting (possibly east to northeast directed) that involved Lower Aillik Group strata. U–Pb titanite ages of 1866–1847 Ma in part record a metamorphic event that followed this plutonic–tectonic activity. These early events are temporally and kinematically difficult to reconcile with accretion of juvenile Makkovikian terranes in the southeast and may instead be related to early stages of the ca. 1.91–1.72 Ga Torngat orogeny along the western margin of the Nain craton. In contrast, high-grade metamorphism, dextral shearing, and northwestward thrusting between 1841 and 1784 Ma, including crystallization of an Iggiuk granitic vein at 1811 ± 8 Ma, are in accord with accretion of Makkovikian terranes in a dextral transpressional regime (Makkovikian orogeny sensu stricto). Coeval sinistral transpression in the Torngat orogen suggests that both otogenic belts accommodated relative northward tectonic escape of the Nain craton during this interval.


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