Geology and origin of the Mowat creek breccia zone, Parkin Township, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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dc.contributor.authorHolmes, Tamara
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-07T22:06:56Z
dc.date.available2023-06-07T22:06:56Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractThe geology of the Mowat Creek area, Parkin Township, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, comprises Archean greenstones, Huronian metasedimentary rocks, and diabase intrusive rock. The mineralogy and strong northwest-southeast trending foliation, especially within the greenstones, represent regional compression and metamorphism in the greenschist to amphibolite facies. The breccia zone of Mowat Creek is approximately 300m wide, trends northeast-southwest, and occurs between the greenstones and the diabase. It consists primarily of rounded quartzite clasts within a microcrystalline matrix of similar mineralogy. A reverse thrust fault, assuming a 45° dip-slip, is proposed as a model for the origin of the breccia zone, with an approximate overthrow of 425 m. This large scale faulting is parallel to other concentric faults in the Sudbury Basin, and therefore, might suggest a relation to the Sudbury impact event.
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dc.description.note1 unnumbered page after the last numbered page
dc.description.noteUniversity of New Brunswick. Department of Geology.
dc.format.extentvi, 29 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/36613
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
dc.subject.disciplineEarth Sciences
dc.titleGeology and origin of the Mowat creek breccia zone, Parkin Township, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
dc.typesenior report
thesis.degree.disciplineEarth Sciences
thesis.degree.fullnameBachelor of Science
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelundergraduate
thesis.degree.nameB.Sc.

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