Rubidium-strontium age determinations from the Churchill Province of northern Manitoba
| dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Richard Kime | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-15T15:53:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-05-15T15:53:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1974 | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Earth Sciences | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The ages of three rock units from Churchill Structural Province of Manitoba were determined by the rubidium-strontium, whole-rock method. A minimum age of 2636 +/- 163 million years, with an initial ratio of 0.7025 +/- 0.0034 was obtained for a foliated quartz monzonite from the Kasmere Lake area in Northern Manitoba (87Rb decay constant of 1.39 X 10-11yr-1). This unit probably represents an Archean basement for the metasedimentary rocks of the Wollaston Lake Belt in Manitoba. Also from the Kasmere Lake area, a grey quartz dioritic to grandodioritic gneiss gave a minimum age of 1941 +/- 25 million years and an initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.7038 +/- 0.0003. The isotopic data implies that this unit was formed from primary igneous material which was emplaced early in the Hudsonian Orogeny and underwent alkali metasomatism during a subsequent event. A minimum age of 1818 +/- 199 million years was obtained for a ferrohypersthene metatonalite, metadiorite and anorthositic gabbro from the Burntwood Lake area in central Manitoba. This age and the initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.7032 +/- 0.0013 suggest that these ferrohypersthene rocks were derived from primary magma intruded during the Hudsonian Orogeny. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | v, 51 leaves. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | ocm72730530 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/6132 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.title | Rubidium-strontium age determinations from the Churchill Province of northern Manitoba | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| local.subject.manitoba | yes | en_US |
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