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A Cambrian island arc in Iapetus: geochronology and geochemistry of the Lake Ambrose volcanic belt, Newfoundland Appalachians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. R. Dunning ,
H. S. Swinden ,
B. F. Kean ,
D. T. W. Evans  and
G. A. Jenner
G. R. Dunning
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X5, Canada
H. S. Swinden
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, P.O. Box 8700, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
B. F. Kean
Affiliation:
Mineral Resources Management Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, P.O. Box 8700, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
D. T. W. Evans
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, P.O. Box 8700, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
G. A. Jenner
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X5, Canada
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Abstract

The Lake Ambrose volcanic belt (LAVB) outcrops as a 45 km long northeast-trending belt of mafic and felsic volcanic rocks along the eastern side of the Victoria Lake Group in south-central Newfoundland. It comprises roughly equal proportions of mafic pillow basalt and high silica rhyolite, locally interbedded with epiclastic turbidites. Volcanic rocks have been metamorphosed in the greenschist facies and are extensively carbonatized.

U-Pb (zircon) dates from rhyolite at two, widely separated localities give identical ages of 513 ± 2 Ma (Upper Cambrian), and this is interpreted as the eruptive age of the volcanic sequence. Primitive arc and low-K tholeiites can be recognized on the basis of major and trace element geochemistry, ranging from LREE-depleted to LREE-enriched. Geochemical variation between mafic volcanic types is interpreted predominantly to reflect contrasts in source characteristics and degree of partial melting; some variation within each geochemical type attributable to fractional crystallization can be recognized. Detailed examination of some samples indicates that the heavy REE and related elements have locally been mobile, probably as a result of carbonate complexing.

The LAVB is the oldest well-dated island arc sequence in Newfoundland, and perhaps in the Appalachian–Caledonian Orogen. Its age requires modification of widely held models for the tectonic history of central Newfoundland. It is older than the oldest known ophiolite, demonstrating that arc volcanism was extant before the generation of the oldest known oceanic crust in this part of Iapetus. It further demonstrates that there was a maximum of approximately 30 Ma between the rift-drift transition which initiated Iapetus, and the initiation of subduction. This suggests that the oceanic sequences preserved in Newfoundland represent a series of arcs and back arc basins marginal to the main Iapetus Ocean, and brings into question whether the Appalachian accreted terranes contain any remnants of normal mid-ocean ridge type Iapetan crust.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 128 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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