Regional Infiltration of Meteoric Water into the Mira Terrane: a Stable Isotope Study of the Avalonian Huntington Mountain Pluton and Related Rocks, Cape Breton Island, Canada

• Main Author: Petts, Duane C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2008
• Subjects: Avalon Zone; Carbon-isotope; Hydrogen-isotope; Hydrothermal; Meteoric Water; Mira Terrane; Northern Appalachian Orogen; Oxygen-isotope; Plutonic; Volcanic; Canada; Breton Island; Huntington; Mira; East Bay
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4753; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/digitizedtheses/article/8555/viewcontent/2023_11_20_Infiltration_of_Meteoric_Water_Into_the_Mira_Terrane_OCR.pdf

The Avalonian Mira terrane of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada is composed mainly of late Proterozoic volcanic-plutonic-sedimentary rocks that formed in an evolved magmatic arc along the margin of Gondwana. The purpose of this study is to determine the source(s) and timing of the 18O-depletio...