The Antwerp-Rossie metaigneous suite (ARS) represents arc magmatism related to closure of the Trans-Adirondack backarc basin during Shawinigan collisional orogenesis (ca. 1200-1160 Ma). The ARS is of calc-alkaline character, bimodal, and lacks intermediate compositions. Primarily intruding marble and pelitic gneiss, the ARS is spatially restricted to the Adirondack Lowlands southeast of the Black Lake fault. On discrimination diagrams, the ARS samples plot primarily within the volcanic arc granite fi elds. Incompatible elements show an arc-like signature with negative Nb, Ta, P, and Zr and positive Cs, Pb, La, and Nd anomalies relative to primitive mantle. Neodymium model ages (T DM , depleted mantle model) range from 1288 to 1634 Ma; the oldest ages (1613-1634) and smallest epsilon Nd (ε Nd ) values are found in proximity to the Black Lake fault, delineating the extent of Laurentia prior to the Shawinigan orogeny. The epsilon Nd values at crystallization (1200 Ma) plot well below the depleted mantle curve. Geochemical and isotopic similarities to the Hermon granitic gneiss (HGG) (ca. 1182 Ma) and differences from the Hyde School Gneiss-Rockport Granite suites (1155-1180 Ma) suggest that arc plutonism rapidly transitioned into A-type AMCG (anorthosite-mangeritecharnockite-granite) plutonism. Given the short duration of Shawinigan subduction, apparently restricted extent of the ARS (Adirondack Lowlands), location outboard of the pre-Shawinigan Laurentian margin, intrusion into the Lowlands supracrustal sequence, bimodal composition, and recent discovery of enriched mantle rocks in the Lowlands, it is proposed the ARS formed as a consequence of subduction related to closure of a backarc basin that once extended between the Frontenac terrane and the Southern Adirondacks.

The Cora Lake shear zone (CLsz) is a 4-6 km wide localized high-strain zone that bisects the polydeformed Athabasca granulite terrane, northern Saskatchewan. It also coincides with the geophysical trace of the Snowbird tectonic zone. The CLsz represents a major lithotectonic and thermobarometric discontinuity within the exposure of >20 000 km 2 of high-pressure granulites. Most rocks have a strong mineral lineation plunging moderately to the southwest. The Northwestern subdomain (hangingwall) is characterized by ca. 2.6 Ga plutonic rocks that contain an early, subhorizontal gneissic layering (ca. 2.57 Ga) that was overprinted by large amplitude folds and a partitioned, but pervasive, axial planar, dextral, shear fabric at ca. 1.9 Ga. Thermobarometry suggests metamorphic conditions of ϳ0.9 GPa and ϳ750°C during both of the phases of tectonism. The footwall is predominantly underlain by the ca. 3.3-3.0 Ga Chipman tonalite, layers of intercalated mafic and felsic granulite, and the widespread 1.9 Ga Chipman mafic dyke swarm. Early subhorizontal layering in the footwall was also folded at ca. 1.9 Ga and transposed into a steeply dipping, northeast-striking axial planar shear fabric that corresponds with the metamorphic peak (1.1-1.2 GPa and 800-900°C). These distinct domains were juxtaposed across the CLsz, which contains a gneissic foliation striking 231°and dipping moderately to steeply to the northwest. Abundant sinistral-normal kinematic indicators are consistent with the distinctly lower pressures to the northwest. The shear zone is characterized by very fine grain sizes, despite its hightemperature assemblages including clinopyroxene and garnet. Thermobarometry from the CLsz displays progressive decompression of reworked footwall rocks with increasing mylonitization. In situ monazite geochronology indicates shearing at 1.89-1.87 Ga shortly after the granulite facies metamorphic peak. The anomalous sinistral kinematics of the CLsz, bracketed in time between periods of dextral shearing, can be explained by changing regional stresses during alternating convergent tectonics to the west and to the southeast of the Athabasca granulite terrane.Résumé : La zone de cisaillement de Cora Lake (CLsz) est une zone localisée de fortes déformations; elle a une largeur de 4 à 6 km et elle divise en deux parties le terrane de granulite polydéformé d'Athabasca, dans le nord de la Saskatchewan. Cette zone coïncide aussi avec la trace géophysique de la zone tectonique Snowbird. La CLsz représente une importante discontinuité lithotectonique et thermobarométrique dans l'affleurement de plus de 20 000 km 2 de granulites de haute pression. La plupart des roches ont une forte linéation minérale plongeant modérément vers le SO. Le sous-domaine nord-ouest (l'éponte supérieure) est caractérisé par des roches plutoniques d'environ 2,6 Ga qui contiennent un rubanement gneissique précoce subhorizontal (ϳ2,57 Ga) lequel a été surimprimé par des plis à grande amplitude et une texture de cisaillement envahissante, partitionnée, à axe planaire ...

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We identify two piercing point pairs along a ~500 km transect of the arcuate strikeslip Denali fault to document long-term slip partitioning. Geochemical and isotopic similarity between Foraker and Panorama-Schist Creek-Nenana Plutons suggest ~155 km of right-lateral displacement on the western Denali fault since 37 Ma at a rate of ~4.2 mm/year. The eastern Denali fault Maclaren-Cottonwood Terrane geochronology correlation establishes ~305 km of displacement on the eastern Denali fault since 33 Ma at a rate of ~9.2 mm/year. The ratio of Pleistocene-Holocene slip rates between the western (5.3 mm/year) and eastern (12.9 mm/year) Denali fault is 0.41 and our new constraints yield a Late Eocene-Holocene ratio of 0.46. Hence, we interpret that the overall arcuate geometry of the Denali fault master strand was established by 33 Ma. We infer that the persistent long-wave geometric stability of the Denali fault and other highly slip partitioned fault systems are related to long-term highly oblique transpressive environs.

Migmatites are common in the hinterland of orogenic belts. The timing and mechanism (in situ vs. external, P-T conditions, reactions, etc.) of melting are important for understanding crustal rheology, tectonic history, and orogenic processes. The Adirondack Highlands has been used as an analog for mid/deep crustal continental collisional tectonism. Migmatites are abundant, and previous workers have interpreted melting during several different events, but questions remain about the timing, tectonic setting, and even the number of melting events. We use multiscale compositional mapping combined with in situ geochronology and geochemistry of monazite to constrain the nature, timing, and character of melting reaction(s) in one locality from the eastern Adirondack Highlands. Three gray migmatitic gneisses, studied here, come from close proximity and are very similar in microscopic and macroscopic (outcrop) appearance. Each of the rocks is interpreted to have undergone biotite dehydration melting (i.e., Bt + Pl + Als + Qz = Grt + Kfs + melt). Full-section compositional maps show the location of reactants and products of the melting reaction, especially prograde and retrograde biotite, peritectic K-feldspar, and leucosome, in addition to all monazite and zircon in context. In addition, the maps provide constraints on kinematics during melting and a context for interpretation of accessory phase composition and geochronology. More so than zircon, monazite serves as a monitor of melting and melt loss. The growth of garnet during melting leaves monazite depleted in Y and HREEs while melt loss from the system leaves monazite depleted in U. Results show that in all three localities, partial melting occurred during at ca. 1160–1150 Ma (Shawinigan orogeny), but the samples show high variability in the location and degree of removal of the melt phase, from near complete to segregated into layers to dispersed. All three localities experienced a second high-T event at ca. 1050 Ma, but only the third (non-segregated) sample experienced further melting. Thus, in addition to bulk composition, the fertility for melting is an important function of the previous history and the degree of mobility of earlier melt and fluids. Monazite is also a sensitive monitor of retrogression; garnet breakdown leads to increased Y and HREE in monazite. Results here suggest that all three samples remained at depth between the two melting events but were rapidly exhumed after the second event.