The Disappointment Hill complex: Proterozoic granulites in southwestern Newfoundland

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Owen, J. V., Currie, K. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Breton Island; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263593300007513; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0263593300007513

ABSTRACT The Steel Mountain terrane of the southern Long Range Mountains forms a fault-bounded massif of (meta)plutonic rocks including the Disappointment Hill complex (DHC), a sequence of granulite-facies lithologies containing charnockite emplaced at 1498 Ma (U-Pb, zircon). Quartzofeldspathic gnei...