Geology, geochronology, and tectonic significance of the Blair River inlier, northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

• Main Author: Miller, Brent Vanlier.
• Other Authors: Ph.D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Dalhousie University 2014
• Subjects: Geology; Blair; Breton Island; Canada; Otter Brook
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55493

The Blair River inlier of northern Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia includes four major Proterozoic units. The protolith of the tonalitic to dioritic Sailor Brook orthogneiss is no younger than 1217 Ma and metamorphic zircon associated with granulite-facies metamorphism of this unit crystallised at 10...