Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Paleoproterozoic Thluicho Lake Group, Southwestern Rae Province, Canada: Alluvial Basin Development in the Hinterland of the Taltson Orogen

Autor:	Kathryn M. Bethune, K. E. Ashton, G. M. Yeo, R. C. Hunter
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Geochemistry Alluvial fan Geology Conglomerate Stratigraphy Clastic rock Facies Alluvium Sedimentology Siltstone Geomorphology
Zdroj:	The Journal of Geology. 118:487-508
ISSN:	1537-5269 0022-1376
DOI:	10.1086/655373
Popis:	The Thluicho Lake Group is a middle-Paleoproterozoic succession of greenschist-facies continental clastic rocks that was deposited on variably mylonitized crystalline basement rocks in the southwestern Rae Province of the Canadian Shield, near the end of 2.02–1.92-Ga Thelon-Taltson orogenesis. Two informal formations are proposed for this fining-upward succession. The Powder Lake formation comprises predominantly coarse-grained rocks including conglomerate (Gulo Lake member), pebbly sandstone (Camel Lake member), and sandstone (Wellington Lake member), whereas the overlying Camsell Portage formation consists of sandstone to siltstone (Falls member), rhythmic sandstone and argillite (Waterloo Lake member), and argillite (Slate Island member). The two informal formations represent two principal facies associations: a lower conglomerate-sandstone facies association representing an alluvial fan to distal braided plain that underwent episodic flash flooding events and an upper sandstone siltstone–muds...
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