Geological and geochronological relationships of the Thompson nickel belt, Manitoba

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Cranstone, Donald A., Turek, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1976
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Pikwitonei; Assean Lake; Churchill
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e76-109; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e76-109

The Pikwitonei province is an early Precambrian inlier of retrograded granulite and amphibolite facies gneisses that separates the Superior and Churchill provinces in Manitoba. The granulites are unconformably overlain by rocks of the Superior province along the southeast boundary, and are in contac...