Laser Ablation ICP-MS U-Pb and 40Ar-39Ar age constraints on Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic magmatic and tectono-metamorphic evolution of the link between Hope Bay and Elu greenstone belts,northeast Slave craton,NWT, Canada |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada;2. Barrick Gold Corporation, Montreal, BC, Canada;3. Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen''s University, Kingston, ON, Canada;1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, 241 Williamson Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA;2. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing 100083, PR China;3. Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;4. Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea;1. Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050031, China;2. Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Tianjin 300170, China;3. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;4. Department of Earth Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia;1. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Koptyug ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia;2. Novosibirsk State University, 2, Pirogova str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia;3. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Koptyug ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia;4. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1А Favorsky str., Irkutsk 664033, Russia |
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| Abstract: | The Elu Link connecting the Neoarchean Hope Bay and Elu granite-greenstone belts in the Bathurst block of the northeast Slave craton consists of volcano-sedimentary and gabbro–granite rocks. Laser ablation ICP-MS zircon and titanite U-Pb dating was combined with mineral 40Ar-39Ar age data to date the Elu Link rocks and D1–D3 tectono-metamorphic events, as well as characterize the response to the Thelon Orogeny in the area. The volcanic rocks are correlated with the ca. 2716 Ma Flake Lake suite in the adjacent Hope Bay belt, whereas the sedimentary units have a minimum depositional age of 2684 ± 11 Ma nearly coinciding with the onset of D1 deformation. Most gabbro–granite bodies were emplaced between 2651 ± 14 Ma and 2577 ± 13 Ma coeval with the D2 deformation whose accompanying metamorphism culminated at 2632 ± 7 Ma. Older ages (up to 3042 ± 22 Ma) retained by either the gabbro–granite or their hosts are indicative of crustal contamination. A few gabbro–granites were also emplaced during the 2577 ± 13 Ma to 2494 ± 21 Ma D3 deformation event. However, the 2494 ± 21 Ma intrusions are unusual and mark the Archean–Paleoproterozoic transition. The D3 deformation was followed by erosional exhumation and localized thermal pulses associated with the emplacement of diabase dikes at 2228 ± 8 Ma, 2128 ± 11 Ma, and 802 ± 75 Ma. The Thelon Orogeny imprint, inferred from the 2054 ± 11 Ma to 1919 ± 5 Ma biotite ages, corresponds to nearly isobaric, low-temperature (< 350 °C) metamorphic re-equilibration. |
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