2006: The Nordre Strømfjord shear zone and the Arfersiorfik quartz diorite

• Main Authors: Kai Sørensen, John A. Korstgård, William E. Glassley, Bo Møller Stensgaard
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: aeromagnetic data; Arfersiorfik quartz diorite; deformation; geochemistry; Nagssugtoqidian; Nordre Strømfjord shear zone; West Greenland; Greenland; Nordre Strømfjord; Arfersiorfik; Nordre strømfjord
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.568.850; http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr11/nr11_p145-162.pdf

nating panels of supracrustal rocks and orthogneisses which together form a vertical zone up to 7 km wide with sinistral transcurrent, ductile deformation, which occurred under middle amphibolite facies conditions. The pelitic and metavolcanic schists and paragneisses are all highly deformed, while the orthogneisses appear more variably deformed, with increasing deformation evident towards the supra-crustal units. The c. 1.92 Ga Arfersiorfik quartz diorite is traceable for a distance of at least 35 km from the Inland Ice towards the west-south-west. Towards its northern contact with an intensely deformed schist unit it shows a similar pattern of increasing strain, which is accompanied by chemical and mineralogical changes. The metasomatic changes associated with the shear zone deformation are superimposed on a wide range of original chemical compositions, which reflect magmatic olivine and/ or pyroxene as well as hornblende fractionation trends. The chemistry of the Arfersiorfik quartz dior-ite suite as a whole is comparable to that of Phanerozoic plutonic and volcanic rocks of calc-alkaline affinity.