1988
DOI: 10.4138/1657
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Tectonic significance of black pelites and basalts in the St. Croix Terrane, coastal Maine and New Brunswick

Abstract: The St. Croix Terrane of coastal Maine and adjacent New Brunswick is characterized by Ordovician carbonaceous pelites in the upper part of the stratigraphic section. These pelites are locally interbedded with mafic volcanic rocks. Metamorphism in the terrane varies from the albite-epidote-homfels facies along the New Brunswick-Maine border to greenschist and lower amphibolite facies in southwestern Maine.The mafic volcanic rocks are evolved basalts that have trace-element abundances similar to intraplate thole… Show more

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“…The New River-St. Croix association is also supported by the similar tholeiitic compositions of the basalts at the base of the Calais Formation and in the Castine Volcanics (Fyffe et al 1988a;Schultz et al 2008). These MORB-like basalts are likely related to the initiation of Penobscot backarc rifting, but it is not known whether extension was sufficient to separate the St. Croix terrane completely from the trailing edge of Ganderia (New River and Brookville terranes).…”
Section: Tectono-sedimentary Basin Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…The New River-St. Croix association is also supported by the similar tholeiitic compositions of the basalts at the base of the Calais Formation and in the Castine Volcanics (Fyffe et al 1988a;Schultz et al 2008). These MORB-like basalts are likely related to the initiation of Penobscot backarc rifting, but it is not known whether extension was sufficient to separate the St. Croix terrane completely from the trailing edge of Ganderia (New River and Brookville terranes).…”
Section: Tectono-sedimentary Basin Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…Some were depos ited in deep anoxic water concurrently with minor basaltic volcanism having within-plate tholeiitic geochemical charac teristics (Fyffe et al, 1988). The St. Croix terrane in the re gion under discussion consists of thin-bedded metasandstone, graphitic and pyrite-or pyrrhotite-bearing metapelite, and a few calcareous quartzites or marble beds.…”
Section: T Erranes In the P Enobscot B Ay Regionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The St. Croix terrane in the re gion under discussion consists of thin-bedded metasandstone, graphitic and pyrite-or pyrrhotite-bearing metapelite, and a few calcareous quartzites or marble beds. Several basalt flows occur near the base of the section (Fyffe et al, 1988). The St.…”
Section: T Erranes In the P Enobscot B Ay Regionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This suggestion would be reinforced if correlations with the Cookson Group are correct, as tholeiitic basalts of the Calais Formation were also related to rifting in a back-arc ensialic environment (Fyffe et al, 1988. The presence of voluminous felsic volcanic rocks in the Annidale Group indicates the involvement of a substantial crustal component (arc or continental?)…”
Section: Y//a C O N T a C T R E L A T I O N S H I P U N K N O W N > Pmentioning
confidence: 99%