Paleozoic supracrustal rocks near Cheticamp, Nova Scotia

Near Cheticamp, northwestern Cape Breton Island, a sequence of supracrustal rocks overlies and cuts granite previously dated at 530±44 million years, as veil as older, presumably Precambrian gneisses. Rhyolite dikes feeding the supracrustal sequence yielded zircons giving a U-Pb discordia age of 439...

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Published in:Atlantic Geology
Main Author: Currie, K. L.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 1982
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/1392