Late Ordovician through Early Devonian units of the Passamaquoddy Bay area are interpreted to represent sequences that evolved in arc and back-arc environments. The main elements of the arc are exposed on Campobeilo Island and include a predominantly felsic volcanic sequence to the northeast, a sequence of intercalated turbidite and mafic volcanic rocks to the southwest, and mafic dyke swarms throughout. Petrographic, geochemical, and 40Ar/39Ar studies of these rocks record episodic deformation and varying degrees of metamorphism up to lower amphibolite facies, and a protracted history of mafic magma injection from a similar source beginning in the Early Silurian. These features, combined with stratigraphic relationships and overall structural patterns, indicate a rapid transition from felsic-to mafic-dominated magmatism accompanied by radical changes in the depositional regime in the arc with time, and exposure of progressively deeper crustal levels towards the northeast within the arc.Review of the assignment of other units in the Passamaquoddy Bay region to major tectonostratigraphic belts north of Campobeilo Island clarifies regional correlations and provides possible additional links to Neoproterozoic basement in the area.Les unites de TOrdovicien superieur au Devonien inferieur du secteur de la baie Passamaquoddy sont interpretees comme des unites representatives de sequences ayant evolue dans des environnements d'arc et d'arriere-arc. Les principaux elements de Pare affleurent sur Pile Campobeilo et component une sequence principalement volcanofelsique au nord-est, une sequence volcanomafique/turbiditique intercalee au sud-ouest et des groupes de filons mafiques un peu partout. Des etudes petrographiques, geochimiques et 40Ar/39Ar de ces roches reinvent une deformation episodique et des degres divers de metamorphisme jusqu'au facies amphibolique inferieur, ainsi que des antecedents prolongds d'injection de magma mafique d'une source similaire a partir du Silurien inferieur. Ces p articulars, conjuguees aux relations stratigraphiques et aux configurations structurales generates, revelent une transition rapide d'un magmatisme a predominance felsique a un magmatisme a predominance mafique accompagne de changements spectaculaires dans le regime de sedimentation a Pinterieur de Parc avec le temps, ainsi qu'un affleurement de niveaux crustaux progressivement plus profonds vers le nord-est a Pintdrieur de Parc. L'examen de Paffectation des autres unites dans la region de la baie Passamaquoddy aux principals structures teconostratigraphiques au nord de Pile Campobeilo clarifie les correlations regionales et foumit des liens suppldmentaires possibles avec le socle du Proterozoi'que superieur du secteur. In t r o d u c t io nDiabase dykes and gabbroic intrusions comprise a significant portion of most Silurian sections in the Passamaquoddy Bay area of southwestern New Brunswick. Numerous older publications based on work in the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., Cumming 1966Helmstaedt 1968;Ruitenberg 1968;Donohoe 1978;Gates 196...
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