Provenance of the Lower Carboniferous Horton Group, Petit-de-Grat Island, Nova Scotia, as revealed by detrital zircon ages

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Authors: Force, Eric R., Barr, Sandra M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 2013
• Subjects: detrital zircon; U-Pb geochronology; Horton Group; Carboniferous; provenance; Breton Island; Mira
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/atlgeol.2012.007

A quartz sandstone bed in a dominantly conglomeratic section in the central part of the Lower Carboniferous Horton Group on Petit-de-Grat Island, offshore southern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, contains detrital zircon grains with ages ranging from mid-Devonian to Archean. The similarity of the D...