Archean rocks in the southern Rottenstone Domain: significance for the evolution of the Trans-Hudson Orogen

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Bickford, M E, Hamilton, M A, Wortman, G L, Hill, B M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2001
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Hudson; Bear Island; Black Bear Island Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e01-027; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e01-027

An augened, strongly flasered, and multiply folded monzonitic gneiss occurs in a structural dome in the Black Bear Island Lake region of northern Saskatchewan, within the ca. 1850 Ma Paleoproterozoic southern Rottenstone Domain of the Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO). A sample of this rock has yielded ther...