The age and origin of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) as constrained by zircon U–Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and O–Hf isotopes

L Bickerton, DJ Kontak, JB Murphy… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
The South Mountain Batholith (SMB; Nova Scotia, Canada) is the largest composite
batholith exposed in the Appalachians and lies entirely within the most outboard Meguma …

Geochemical variation in biotite from the Devonian South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia: Constraints on emplacement pressure, temperature, magma redox state …

JM Brenan, BJ Maciag, JJ Hanley - American Mineralogist, 2023 - degruyter.com
Here we report the composition of biotite from the peraluminous Devonian South Mountain
Batholith (SMB) of southwestern Nova Scotia (Canada), the largest intrusive body within the …

Sources of geogenic arsenic in well water associated with granitic bedrock from Nova Scotia, Canada

BJ Maciag, JM Brenan, MB Parsons… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Arsenic toxicity in drinking water is a global issue, with chronic exposure causing cancer and
other health concerns. Groundwater from geochemically similar granites from mainland …

Assimilation of xenocrystic apatite in peraluminous granitic magmas

DB Clarke, DE Harlov, JM Brenan… - American …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Apatite is a ubiquitous phase in granite plutons and in most adjacent country rocks, thus
contamination of a granite magma with wall-rock material results in two genetic types of …

The contact aureole of the South Mountain Batholith in Halifax, Nova Scotia: geology, mineral assemblages, and isograds

RA Jamieson, GG Hart, GG Chapman… - Canadian Journal of …, 2012 - cdnsciencepub.com
The contact aureole at the eastern margin of the South Mountain Batholith (Halifax Pluton)
underlies most of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Halifax Group in the study area …

Devonian plutons in the eastern Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotopic compositions, age, and petrogenetic implications

D Archibald, SM Barr, CE White… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Abundant granitic plutons intruded the eastern Meguma terrane of Nova Scotia in the middle-
to late Devonian. Less voluminous diorite-tonalite and gabbro intrusions are associated with …

Lithogeochemistry, petrology, and the acid-generating potential of the Goldenville and Halifax groups and associated granitoid rocks in metropolitan Halifax Regional …

CE White, TA Goodwin - atlantic GeoloGy, 2011 - erudit.org
ABSTRACT The Rye Complex of coastal New Hampshire and Maine is a peri-Gondwanan
terrrane that up to now had an uncertain origin. An offshore portion of the complex …

Occurrence, origin, and significance of melagranites in the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia

MA MacDonald, DB Clarke - Canadian Journal of Earth …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Melagranites (colour index> 20, with biotite> garnet> cordierite) constitute∼ 0.1% of the
area of the 7300 km 2 peraluminous South Mountain Batholith (SMB), Nova Scotia. The …

Day 2: The Fine Gold intrusive suite—Records of the nascent Cretaceous arc

JS Lackey, CL Sendek, JL Eisenberg - 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Today's trip introduces Field Forum participants to the earliest stages of magmatism in the
Cretaceous section of the Sierran arc. Despite the paucity of fresh rock exposed in the …

GEOCHEMISTRY OF ARSENIC IN MAGMATIC SYSTEMS WITH SOME RESULTS FOR ANTIMONY

B Maciag - 2022 - dalspace.library.dal.ca
This thesis reports on the results of high-temperature experiments and detailed chemical
analysis of natural samples that assess the oxidation state of As and Sb, and the distribution …