Betts Cove, ophiolite and its cover rocks, Newfoundland / by J.H. Bedard [and others]

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Betts Cove ophiolite and its cover rocks, Newfoundland Article in Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada January with 31 Reads How we measure 'reads'. ISBN: OCLC Number: Language Note: Abstract also in French.

Description: 76 pages: illustrations, maps ; 28 cm: Series Title. The ophiolite and its cover rocks were then folded into a large-scale syncline, presumably during Acadian compression in the Devonian (Tremblay et al., ). Field Relations. A new geological map of the Betts Cove ophiolite complex is now available (Bédard et al., a), and descriptions of field relations and petrographic characteristics Cited by: Structure of the Betts Cove Ophiolite Complex beneath the western margin of Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland Article (PDF Available) in Canadian Journal of.

Generally, ophiolites can be formed in a variety of tectonic settings (Dilek and Furnes, ), including forearc (e.g., Betts Cove ophiolite in Newfoundland, Bédard et al., ), mid-ocean. The closest correlates to the Tasmanian rocks occur within the Marum 'ophiolite' of Papua and New Guinea (England and Davies, ;Jacques and Chappell, ;Jacques, ) and the Betts Cove.

The mineralogical and geochemical features of the lower Ordovician Betts Cove ophiolite of northeastern Newfoundland indicate that hydrothermal circulation of seawater near a mid-ocean ridge has been involved in the metamorphism of the complex.

The degree of greenschist facies metamorphism increases Betts Cove stratigraphie depth in the ophioli te. In the Newfoundland Appalachians, the Betts Cove Complex and cover rocks of the Snooks Arm Group form a composite section of Ordovician marginal oceanic crust that is unconformably overlain by.

J.H. BédardPetrogenesis of boninites from the Betts Cove Ophiolite, Newfounland, Canada: Identification of subducted source components J. Geology of the Kitty Pond area, Betts Cove Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland Author: Bruce Idleman (scanned and assembled to pdf by William Kidd) Subject: Plate 2 of MS thesis SUNY Albany () Created Date: 5/10/ PM.

Such examples include the Bay of Islands Complex (Jenner et al., ), the Betts Cove ophiolite (Bédard et al., ), the Coast Range Ophiolite, CA Shervais and Kimbrough,Giaramita et al.,many of the Japanese ophiolites (Ishiwatari, ), also ophiolites in the Banda arc (Harris, ) and the North Island New Zealand and.

1. Introduction. Ophiolites are “suites of temporally and spatially associated ultramafic to felsic rocks related to separate melting episodes and processes of magmatic differentiation in particular oceanic tectonic environments (Dilek and Furnes, ).Their geochemical characteristics, internal structure, and thickness are strongly controlled by spreading rate, proximity to plumes or.

J.H. BédardPetrogenesis of boninites from the Betts Cove Ophiolite, Newfoundland, Canada: identification of subducted source components Journal of. Introduction [2] Detailed studies of well‐exposed ophiolites over the last 20 years have shown that many formed in suprasubduction zone (SSZ) settings; that is, in the upper plate at a convergent plate boundary, and not at mid‐ocean ridge spreading centers [e.g., Evarts, ; Miyashiro, ; Pearce et al., ].The suprasubduction zone setting encompasses the early evolution of.

A common feature of the intermediate to silicic rocks in all of these ophiolite types is a pronounced negative Nb anomaly, though in the case of the FA type Lac Brompton ophiolite (no.

95 of Table 1) this feature is weak. Ti and Sr display negative anomalies in the majority of the samples, although a small number of samples exhibit positive Ti. [1] The stratigraphy of the well‐preserved Solund‐Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex in the West Norwegian Caledonides documents the volcanic evolution of a spreading center in a Late Ordovician back‐arc basin.

Basaltic sheet flows, pillow lavas and volcanic breccias are the main components of the ∼– m thick extrusive sequence, and are organized stratigraphically in a cyclic manner. Western Canada's largest Gem & Mineral company, with thousands of treasures just waiting to be discovered.

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