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 …

Application of LA ICP-MS analysis of arsenopyrite to gold metallogeny of the Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada

B Gourcerol, DJ Kontak, JA Petrus, PC Thurston - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Investigation of gold metallogeny in the Paleozoic Meguma terrane (Canada) is conducted
through LA-ICP-MS analysis of arsenopyrite collected from eight slate-belt style vein gold …

Application of LA-ICP-MS sulfide analysis and methodology for deciphering elemental paragenesis and associations in addition to multi-stage processes in …

B Gourcerol, DJ Kontak… - The Canadian …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Quantitative laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
element distribution analysis represents a relatively new and powerful approach to assess …

Post-accretionary exhumation of the Meguma terrane relative to the Avalon terrane in the Canadian Appalachians

DB Archibald, JB Murphy, SM Reddy, F Jourdan… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
The accretion of the Avalon and Meguma terranes to the Laurentian margin was a major
event in the development of the Appalachian orogen. The Minas Fault Zone delineates the …

Late Devonian syntaxis in the Northern Appalachian orogen

N Piette-Lauzière, KP Larson, DA Kellett… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The pre-accretionary shapes of cratonic margins form successions of promontories and re-
entrants inherited from the rifting of supercontinents. In accretionary orogens, the extent of …

Derivation of the Early Carboniferous Wedgeport pluton by crystal fractionation of a mafic parental magma: a rare case of an A-type granite within the Meguma terrane …

JG Shellnutt, J Dostal - Geological Magazine, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Cambrian–Ordovician metasedimentary rocks of the Meguma terrane (Canadian
Appalachians) were extensively intruded by silicic plutons during Middle Devonian to Early …

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 …

Further Re-Os arsenopyrite geochronology from selected Meguma Au deposits, Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia: possible evidence for a protracted gold-forming system

L Chen - 2015 - era.library.ualberta.ca
Abstract The Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, is dominated by two rock types; regionally
deformed and metamorphosed Cambro-Ordovician metasedimentary rocks and ca. 380-370 …

Character and Genesis of Indium Mineralization, East Kemptville, Nova Scotia

J Willson - 2019 - scholar.uwindsor.ca
Abstract The East Kemptville deposit is a Sn-polymetallic greisen deposit that is a known
host of indium mineralization, an important element in high-technology applications. Indium …

Application of bulk fluid volatile chemistry to exploration for metasedimentary rock-hosted orogenic gold deposits: An example from the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia …

MJ Kerr, JJ Hanley, DJ Kontak - Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2021 - Elsevier
Disseminated gold (Au) deposits hosted in metasedimentary rocks present unique
exploration challenges because the Au is generally very fine-grained or refractory, and not …