Overview of Results from the Greenstone ... - Geology Ontario
Overview of Results from the Greenstone ... - Geology Ontario
Overview of Results from the Greenstone ... - Geology Ontario
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mesocumulate). The Stoughton–Roquemaure assemblage is dominated by pillowed flows with lesser<br />
sheet-like flows. Massive flows are frequently associated with pillowed flows, whereas differentiated<br />
flows only occur in specific parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Stoughton–Roquemaure assemblage. The Tisdale and Kidd–<br />
Munro assemblages contain more sheet-like flows than pillowed flows. Both massive and differentiated<br />
flows are frequently present in <strong>the</strong>se assemblages, however, <strong>the</strong> massive flows are characterized by<br />
abundant ortho- to adcumulate lithologies with fewer olivine-phyric lithologies and differentiated flows<br />
are characterized by thick orthocumulate lower zones with thin spinifex-textured upper zones.<br />
Volcaniclastic komatiitic rocks occur in <strong>the</strong> Kidd–Munro and Tisdale assemblages, and are typically<br />
autoclastic (i.e., flow-top breccia hyaloclastite or reworked hyaloclastite ra<strong>the</strong>r than pyroclastic rock).<br />
Only <strong>the</strong> Kidd–Munro and Tisdale assemblages contain a large proportion <strong>of</strong> komatiitic peridotite and<br />
Figure 25. General geology <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Abitibi greenstone belt around Timmins showing <strong>the</strong> different nickel showings or deposits<br />
with <strong>the</strong> year <strong>of</strong> discovery.<br />
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