Tectonic evolution of two greenstone belts from the Superior Province in Manitoba

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Park, R. G., Ermanovics, I. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Hayes; Hayes River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e78-188; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e78-188

The Bigstone Lake and Stevenson Lake greenstone belts are two areas of supracrustal rocks surrounded by quartz diorite to granodiorite plutons and by small patches of tonalitic gneiss interpreted as basement to the greenstone belts. The supracrustal sequence is divided into a lower, mainly volcanic,...