Paleozoic orogens in New England, USA

Robinson, Peter; Tucker, Robert D.; Bradley, Dwight C.; Berry, Henry N; Osberg, Philip H.

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“…1, BML), which is the most obvious suture zone that is more or less on strike with Chaleur Bay. By suggesting that the Bronson Hill arc was built on basement of Gondwanan affinity, Robinson et al (1998) implied a similar correlation. The nature of the basement that actually existed during eruptions of the Bronson Hill arc is unknown, however, because strong but inconclusive evidence suggests that the Avalonian basement that now lies below the Ammonoosuc in the Pelham dome (Fig.…”

Section: A Search For the Red Indian Line In New Englandmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Based on mapping and U-Pb geochronology, we propose that the Bronson Hill arc of other researchers (e.g. Stanley and Ratcliffe, 1985;Tucker and Robinson, 1990;Robinson et al, 1998) is actually composed of two, probably unrelated volcano-sedimentary-intrusive sequences, here informally referred to as the Ammonoosuc sequence (Middle Ordovician, composed of the Ammonoosuc Volcanics and the Joslin Turn and Cambridge Black Proposed accreted terranes, magmatic arcs, and plate sutures. Terranes: LA, Laurentia (Humber zone).…”

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Stratigraphy, geochronology, and accretionary terrane settings of two Bronson Hill arc sequences, northern New England

Moench¹,

Aleinikoff²

2003

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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The Ammonoosuc sequence is defined by the Middle Ordovician Ammonoosuc Volcanics near Littleton, NH, the type area, northeast to Milan, NH, and Oquossoc, ME; it also includes black slate of the Partridge Formation (C. bicornis--zone graptolites, $457 Ma). Related metamorphosed intrusives are the tonalitic Joslin Turn pluton (469 AE 2 Ma), the Cambridge Black granitic pluton (468 AE 3 Ma), and gabbro, tonalite (467 AE 4 Ma), and sheeted diabase of the Chickwolnepy intrusions. These intrusives cut lowermost Ammonoosuc (therefore >469 Ma). Probable uppermost Ammonoosuc is dated at 465 AE 6 and 461 AE 8 Ma. Successively below the Ammonoosuc are the Dead River and Hurricane Mountain Formations (flysch and melange), and the Jim Pond Formation (484 AE 5 Ma) and Boil Mountain Complex (both ophiolite), which are structurally underlain by the Neoproterozoic(?) Chain Lakes massif.The Quimby sequence is defined by the Lower Silurian(?) to Upper Ordovician Quimby Formation, composed of bimodal volcanics (443 AE 4 Ma) and sulfidic shale and graywacke that lie conformably to unconformably above the Ammmonoosuc Volcanics and Partridge Formation. Also in the Quimby sequence are several granitic to sparsely gabbroic plutons of the Highlandcroft (441-452 Ma) and Oliverian (435-456 Ma) Plutonic Suites, which intrude the Dead River, Ammonoouc and Partridge, but not the Quimby Formation.Based on faunal, paleolatitude, and isotopic data, the Ammonoosuc sequence and its correlatives and underlying sequences formed off the southern Laurentian margin, but northwest of the principal Iapetan suture, or Red Indian line. The Boil MountainJim Pond-Hurricane Mountain sequence was ramped northwestward over the Chain Lakes massif at $475 Ma, on the basal Boil Mountain surface. This obduction probably occurred slightly before obduction on the Baie Vert-Brompton surface (BBL), farther NW, over the Laurentian margin, and was followed by Dead River flysch sedimentation, which ended with the abrupt onset of Ammonoosuc-sequence arc magmatism at $470 Ma. Ammonoosuc eruptions probably ended at $460 Ma, when Iapetus closed along the Red Indian line.During a following magmatic hiatus of $3-5 m.y., now represented by portions of the Partridge Formation that overlie the Ammonoosuc Volcanics, subduction polarity reversed, and subduction resumed below the northwest-dipping Brunswick subduction complex (BSC) of New Brunswick, Canada. Quimby-sequence magmatism ($456-435 Ma) on the newly accreted Laurentian margin occurred above the BSC, whose footwall is now buried to the southeast by mainly Silurian clastic sediments of the MerrimackFredericton trough, deposited in the ''Fredericton Sea''. In Silurian to Early Devonian time, the NW-dipping BSC footwall was paired with a SE-dipping subduction zone that produced arc magmas of the Coastal Volcanic belt, built on the composite Avalon and adjacent peri-Avalonian terranes. Orogen-normal extension produced by rapid rollback of both subduction zones narrowed the Fredericton Sea, produced the Central Maine and Connecti...

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Section: A Search For the Red Indian Line In New Englandmentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stratigraphy, geochronology, and accretionary terrane settings of two Bronson Hill arc sequences, northern New England

Moench¹,

Aleinikoff²

2003

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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“…Schenk (1970Schenk ( , 1981Schenk ( , 1997 and Robinson et al (1998) have suggested the succession represents a continental prism that formed off the northwestern African margin, while others (e.g., Landing 2004;Murphy et al 2004a) believed that it Bluestone Quarry Formation contains a higher proportion of high-energy turbidites (Point Pleasant Park member) than the Lumsden Dam Formation and the mass transport deposits in the Bluestone Quarry Formation (Chain Rock member) are not present in the Lumsden Dam Formation. This difference can be attributed to slightly different positions relative to the basin margin, either laterally, or basinward.…”

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Stratigraphy, provenance and tectonic setting of the Lumsden Dam and Bluestone Quarry formations (Lower Ordovician), Halifax Group, Nova Scotia, Canada

Pothier¹,

Waldron

White

et al. 2015

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Cambrian to Ordovician metamorphosed clastic sedimentary rocks of the Meguma terrane have no correlatives elsewhere in Atlantic Canada but are similar to successions in North Wales. In the Meguma terrane, the Cambrian Goldenville Group, dominated by sandstone, is overlain by the Halifax Group, consisting mainly of fine-grained slate and siltstone. Within the Halifax Group widespread Furongian black slate units are overlain by greyer units with rare Early Ordovician fossils, assigned to the laterally equivalent Bear River, Feltzen, Bluestone Quarry, Lumsden Dam and Glen Brook formations. The type section of the Bluestone Quarry Formation, here defined, is on Halifax Peninsula, where four constituent members are recognized; the type section of the Lumsden Dam Formation is here defined in the Lumsden Dam region near Wolfville. Detrital zircons extracted from a sample of the Lumsden Dam Formation show a range of ages similar to those displayed by the underlying Goldenville Group, including abundant Neoproterozoic zircon representing Avalonian or Pan-African sources, and a prominent group of peaks between 1.95 and 2.2 Ga, probably representing sources in West Africa. A sample from the Glen Brook Formation east of Halifax shows a similar distribution. In contrast to the correlative Welsh successions, no influx of Mesoproterozoic zircon is seen in Early Ordovician samples, suggesting that, if the two basins were in close proximity in the Cambrian, they had diverged by the Early Ordovician, possibly as a result of strike-slip motion along the margin of Gondwana.

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“…Given the great distance between the areas in question, varied geological settings and the fact that they are separated by major faults representing terrane boundaries, the coincidence of this temporal pattern is intriguing. In terms of regional orogenic events recognized through the northern Appalachians, these periods of gold mineralization broadly correspond with definitions of the Acadian and so-called "Neoacadian" orogenies, rather than to the Silurian Salinic Orogeny (Robinson et al 1998;van Staal 2007). Such correspondence raises the possibility that there may be orogen-scale mineralizing episodes linked to these late-stage thermotectonic events, as suggested by the distribution of so-called orogenic gold deposits through geological time (e.g., Goldfarb et al 2001).…”

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The timing of gold mineralization in White Bay, western Newfoundland: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar studies of mafic dykes that predate and postdate mineralization

Kerr

Breemen

2007

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The Rattling Brook deposit is a low-grade, disseminated to stockwork-style gold deposit hosted by Precambrian granodiorite and adjacent Cambrian sedimentary rocks. Alteration and gold mineralization also occur in foliated and metamorphosed mafic dykes, likely of late Precambrian age. The auriferous granodiorite is in turn cut by relatively fresh, unaltered, and locally chilled diabase dykes, interpreted as Paleozoic post-mineralization intrusions. A fresh post-mineralization diabase gave a 40 Ar/ 39 Ar amphibole plateau age of 412.9 ± 4.3 Ma, which is interpreted as the time of its crystallization, and which provides a younger limit for the timing of gold mineralization. An altered, metamorphosed dyke of pre-mineralization timing gave an identical 40 Ar/ 39 Ar biotite plateau age of 412.6 ± 2.3 Ma, which is more difficult to interpret. It could represent post-metamorphic cooling, or alternatively, resetting of metamorphic biotite during alteration related to gold mineralization. In the first case, the age provides a reasonable upper limit for the timing of gold mineralization, provided that the ambient temperature during mineralization was not significantly above the closure temperature for Ar in biotite (~ 300 o C). On this basis, gold mineralization at Rattling Brook occurred during the latest Silurian or earliest Devonian, between 415 and 409 Ma. The possibility that mineralization occurred at temperatures above 300 o C, prior to 415 Ma, cannot be completely excluded, but it must be younger than ca. 430 Ma, the time of peak metamorphism in adjacent areas. In conjunction with sparse data on the ages of gold deposits elsewhere in Newfoundland, the results support two discrete episodes of mineralization corresponding to the SilurianDevonian boundary (420-410 Ma) and middle to late Devonian (380-370 Ma). These age groupings resemble those defined by recent Re-Os isotopic studies of sulphides from vein-style gold deposits in the Meguma terrane of Nova Scotia and may in part correspond to the timing of intrusion-related gold in New Brunswick. Given the small amount of data from all of these areas, further interpretation is speculative. However, such hints of discrete orogen-scale episodes of gold mineralization, perhaps correlative with regional tectonothermal events, provide a powerful incentive for further geochronological studies of gold mineralization in the Appalachian orogen. RÉSUMÉLe gîte du ruisseau Rattling est un gîte aurifère à faible teneur qui, de disséminé, devient un stockwerk inclus dans de la granodiorite précambrienne et des roches sédimentaires cambriennes adjacentes. Une altération et une minéralisa-tion aurifère se manifestent également dans des dykes mafiques métamorphisés et feuilletés, remontant probablement au Précambrien tardif. La granodiorite aurifère est à son tour recoupée par des dykes de diabase figés par endroits, non altérés et relativement sains, interprétés en tant qu'intrusions paléozoïques ultérieures à la minéralisation. Une diabase post-minéralisation inaltérée a accu...

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Paleozoic orogens in New England, USA

Cited by 152 publications

References 127 publications

Stratigraphy, geochronology, and accretionary terrane settings of two Bronson Hill arc sequences, northern New England

Stratigraphy, geochronology, and accretionary terrane settings of two Bronson Hill arc sequences, northern New England

Stratigraphy, provenance and tectonic setting of the Lumsden Dam and Bluestone Quarry formations (Lower Ordovician), Halifax Group, Nova Scotia, Canada

The timing of gold mineralization in White Bay, western Newfoundland: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar studies of mafic dykes that predate and postdate mineralization

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