U–Pb Age of the Stanley Brook Granite, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Authors: Fyffe, Leslie R., van Staal, Cees R., Valverde-Vaquero, Pablo, McNicoll, Vicki J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 2011
• Subjects: Geochronology; Granite; Grand Manan; New Brunswicki; Manan; Priest Cove; Ross Island
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/atlgeol.2011.001

The Stanley Brook Granite on Grand Manan Island has yielded an Early Cambrian U-Pb zircon age of 535 ± 2 Ma. The granite was emplaced into sedimentary rocks of the Flagg Cove Formation of the Castalia Group, proving that the latter is no younger than Early Cambrian. Previous dating of detrital zirco...