Field relations, age, and tectonic setting of metamorphic and plutonic rocks in the Creignish Hills – North Mountain area, southwestern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Authors: White, Chris E., Barr, Sandra M., Davis, Donald W., Swanton, David S., Ketchum, John W.F., Reynolds, Peter H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 2016
• Subjects: geochronology; U-Pb; 40Ar/39Ar; Igneous petrology; Metamorphic petrology; Granite; Ganderia; Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/23792

The Creignish Hills and North Mountain areas of southwestern Cape Breton Island consist mostly of Neoproterozoic rocks typical of the Ganderian Bras d’Or terrane. U-Pb ages presented here for detrital zircon in the Blues Brook Formation of the Creignish Hills confirm a depositional age no greater th...