Chronostratigraphy of the Hottah terrane and Great Bear magmatic zone of Wopmay orogen, Canada, and exploration of a terrane translation model

• Main Authors: Ootes, Luke, Davis, William J, Jackson, Valerie Ann, van Breemen, Otto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2015
• Subjects: Andreas; Baja; Bell Island; Canada; Island Bay; Rivera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70144; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2015-0026

The Paleoproterozoic Hottah terrane is the western-most exposed bedrock of the Canadian Shield, and a critical component for understanding the evolution of the Wopmay orogen. Thirteen new high-precision U-Pb zircon crystallization ages are presented and support field observations of a volcano-pluton...