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Geology, Pangnirtung Fiord, Baffin Island, Nunavut / [Authors: G.D. Jackson and M. Sanborn-Barrie].: M183-1/4-2011E-PDF

"Cumberland Peninsula, eastern Baffin Island, is an under-explored, frontier region with significant diamond, base- and precious-metal potential. Archean (2.97–2.77 Ga) foliated to gneissic tonalitic plutonic rocks with enclaves of >2.77 Ga semipelite, ca. 2.88 Ga gabbro and rare ca. 2.92 Ga metavolcanic rocks form a structural basement, exposed in the south and north. Metasedimentary cover rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Hoare Bay group, exposed from the central to the northeast part of the peninsula, are in tectonic contact with the basement gneisses. The cover sequence includes widespread semipelite-psammite with minor quartzite, marble, silicate- and oxide-facies iron-formation, chert and graphitic-pyritiferous shale, and two geochemically-distinct strands of ultramafic-mafic metavolcanic rocks of pyroclastic origin. Basement and cover rocks are cut by 1.9–1.88 Ga charnockite, biotite-garnet granodiorite and lesser quartz diorite of the Qikiqtarjuaq plutonic suite. Major structures and medium to high-grade metamorphic assemblages are attributed to polyphase tectonometamorphism between ca. 1.90–1.84 Ga"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Natural Resources Canada, issuing body.
  • Geological Survey of Canada, issuing body.
TitleGeology, Pangnirtung Fiord, Baffin Island, Nunavut / [Authors: G.D. Jackson and M. Sanborn-Barrie].
Series title
  • Canadian geoscience map ; 4
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital map
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • This record only includes the map and the “Map information document” in PDF, the complete data set with all the files in various formats is available for free download at http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa : Natural Resources Canada, 2014.
Author / Contributor
  • Jackson, G. D., author.
  • Sanborn-Barrie, Mary,‏ ‎1960- contributor.
Description1 map : col. + 1 map information document ([15] p.).
ISBN978-1-100-19050-1
Catalogue number
  • M183-1/4-2011E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number288928
Edition
  • Preliminary version
Cartographic dataScale 1:100,000 ; Universal Transverse Mercator, zone 20 (W 67°02’--W 65°06'/N 66°46'--N 66°10’)
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