Emplacement and deformation of granite pegmatite dykes 

in a mid-crustal regime of late-orogenic extension, 

southwest Grenville Province, Ontario, Canada

Klemens, Werner; Schwerdtner, W. M.

doi:10.1017/s0016756897007048

Cited by 5 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 24 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Slight buckling of some USDDs into gentle to open recumbent folds (Fig. 4k;Klemens 1996) attests to foliation-perpendicular flattening of the wall rocks after dike emplacement, but on the basis of our observations this is a local feature that is common only in parts of the Ahmic and Parry Sound domains (Klemens and Schwerdtner 1997).…”

Section: Granite-pegmatite Dikesmentioning

confidence: 58%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Post-convergent structures in lower parts of the 1090–1050 Ma (early-Ottawan) thrust-sheet stack, Grenville Province of Ontario, southern Canadian Shield

Schwerdtner

Rivers

Zeeman³

et al. 2014

Can. J. Earth Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Remnants of the early-Ottawan thrust-sheet stack are exposed in the Central Gneiss Belt (CGB, lower portion of stack) and the Composite Arc Belt (upper portion of stack). Post-collisional vertical thinning and associated horizontal extension of the stack produced structures ranging over eight orders of magnitude in horizontal length, and both orogen-parallel and orogen-perpendicular in orientation. At the 100 km scale, the fold-induced constriction in the northern Parry Sound domain appears to have been enhanced, and lineation trend lines in its footwall locally deflected, by a component of NW-SE (i.e., orogen-perpendicular) flattening and a component of NE-SW (i.e., orogen-parallel) ductile extension. At the 10 km scale, four non-cylindrical lenticular bodies of gabbroanorthosite gneiss within the domain, inferred to be triaxial mega-boudins or heterogeneously strained plutons, are separated by large extensional bending folds, the complementary structures attesting to a component of NW-SE flattening and a component of NE-SW extension. Non-cylindrical lenticular structures in other domains of the CGB, interpreted as triaxial foliation mega-boudins, exceed 30 km in length. Their moderately strained granulite-facies interiors give way to highly strained amphibolite-facies margins, thus documenting subvertical ductile flattening and multi-lateral extension during retrogression. Well-layered, highly strained gneiss is commonly deformed by steep NE-SW-trending extensional faults and associated monoclinal fault-propagation folds (FPFs). The short limbs of the FPFs bend the regional elongation lineation and host a set of fault-parallel, unstrained to slightly deformed, granite-pegmatite dikes. Dilation vectors of most dikes are oblique to the granite-pegmatite contacts, and the sense of their tangential components attests to orogen-perpendicular extension. The fault-parallel dikes and associated FPFs are cut by a set of unstrained dikes. Collectively these observations document a prolonged history of post-collisional extension of the mid crust, from ductile structures indicative of a significant component of orogen-parallel extension shortly after the metamorphic peak at mid-crustal depths, to brittle-ductile structures indicative of a component of orogen-perpendicular extension and associated magmatic dilation following its exhumation and cooling in the upper crust.

show abstract

Section: Granite-pegmatite Dikesmentioning

confidence: 58%

“…4h-4l; Klemens 1996; Klemens and Schwerdtner 1997;Rivers 2012). These workers hypothesized that areas with Fig.…”

Section: The Grenville Provincementioning

confidence: 99%

Post-convergent structures in lower parts of the 1090–1050 Ma (early-Ottawan) thrust-sheet stack, Grenville Province of Ontario, southern Canadian Shield

Schwerdtner

Rivers

Zeeman³

et al. 2014

Can. J. Earth Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Structure of Ahmic domain and its vicinity, southwestern Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province of Ontario (Canada)

Schwerdtner

Klemens²

2008

Precambrian Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Transtensional origin of multi-order cross-folds in a high-grade gneiss complex, southwestern Grenville Province: formation during post-peak gravitational collapse

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The well-mapped western part of the Ottawa River Gneiss Complex (ORGC; new name), a large metamorphic core complex, hosts a system of gently plunging cross-folds of outcrop to regional scale situated in the ductile detachment zone between the lower grade cover and high-grade core of the complex. The cross-folds are buckle structures that deform the attenuated gneissic layering, plunge parallel to the regional elongation lineation, range from upright to recumbent, and exhibit distinctive hinge-parallel elongation lineations, all features of extension-dominated ductile transtension. Our L–S fabric data are consistent both with kinematic modelling that predicts progressive constrictional strain in the hinge zones of transtensional folds, and with dynamic modelling that predicts rotation of flattened fold limbs into moderately dipping attitudes. On the basis of petrologic data, we show that cross-folding postdated the peak Ottawan metamorphism and took place during retrogression and exhumation of the thrust-sheet stack. The cross-folds form an inclined system that is principally developed in retrograde melt-weakened amphibolite-facies rocks, with the transtensional origin implying that exhumation and retrogression of the high-grade core of the complex took place in an oblique extensional setting. A transtensional origin for the cross-folds removes the need to appeal to orogen-parallel regional shortening, an implausible requirement of previous interpretations, and is compatible with data indicating that much of the visible fabric and structure of amphibolite-facies domains of the ORGC developed during post-peak exhumation, retrogression, and gravitational collapse of the thrust-sheet stack.

show abstract

Emplacement and deformation of granite pegmatite dykes in a mid-crustal regime of late-orogenic extension, southwest Grenville Province, Ontario, Canada

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Post-convergent structures in lower parts of the 1090–1050 Ma (early-Ottawan) thrust-sheet stack, Grenville Province of Ontario, southern Canadian Shield

Post-convergent structures in lower parts of the 1090–1050 Ma (early-Ottawan) thrust-sheet stack, Grenville Province of Ontario, southern Canadian Shield

Structure of Ahmic domain and its vicinity, southwestern Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province of Ontario (Canada)

Transtensional origin of multi-order cross-folds in a high-grade gneiss complex, southwestern Grenville Province: formation during post-peak gravitational collapse

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About