Geological profiles across the central Skellefte District

Talbot, Christopher J.; Bergman, J.

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“…Many of those to the south are domes emplaced as solid-state gneisses and may be upwellings of the Bothnian terrane (Talbot & Bergman 1991 the Jörn granitoids in the Skellefte arc are true magmatic plutons that fed the Skellefte volcanic rocks. The Jörn granitoids may be melts derived from the Bothnian terrane where it subducted NE (and melted) beneath the northern terrane.…”

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Lateral constraint rather than escape along a terrane boundary near Skelleftehamn

Talbot¹

2005

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Mylonitised greywackes with superposed pseudotachylites (fossil earthquakes) mark the eastern end of a W-E trending terrane boundary between the Skellefte supracrustal group of Svecokarelia to the north and the Bothnian gneisses of Svecofennia to the south. This region has been claimed to provide the clearest evidence that early Proterozoic plate tectonics (>1.85 Ga) involved the same processes as Phanerozoic continental suturing and convergence. Comparisons between the tectonic histories of greywackes in, and on either side, of this boundary demonstrate that the southern terrane already had major recumbent folds at upper amphibolite metamorphic facies before it met and converged on the northern terrane and eventually rose relative to it. These nappes were refolded by upright folds that are circumferential to a syn-Svecofennian granite south of the boundary but the first folds visible in the lower grade rocks to the north. The youngest Svecofennian structures in the region were kink bands that developed in the boundary while it was a steep seismic zone. These kink bands record lateral tectonic constraint rather than lateral escape. West of the study area, mylonites of the terrane boundary are intruded by sheets of post Svecofennian Skellefte granites and plutons of 1.75 Ga Revsund granites.

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Lateral constraint rather than escape along a terrane boundary near Skelleftehamn

Talbot¹

2005

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Geological profiles across the central Skellefte District

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Lateral constraint rather than escape along a terrane boundary near Skelleftehamn

Lateral constraint rather than escape along a terrane boundary near Skelleftehamn

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