File:Basaltic lapillistone (Middle Tholeiitic Unit, Kidd-Munro Assemblage, Neoarchean, 2.711-2.719 Ga; just east of the Potter Mine, east of Timmins, Ontario, Canada) 32 (47082675414).jpg
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Basaltic lapillistone in the Precambrian of Ontario, Canada. These rocks are part of the Late Archean-aged Kidd-Munro Assemblage, which consists of ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks intruded by mafic to ultramafic dikes and sill-like bodies. Minor felsic volcanic rocks are also present. Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits occur in the Kidd-Munro Assemblage - they have been mined at the Texas Gulf Mine and the Potter Mine. This outcrop consists of clast-supported, coarse-grained, fragmental tholeiitic basalt - it's a tholeiitic basalt breccia (it's also been characterized as a hyaloclastite). The fragments vary in shape from angular to agglutinated to convoluted, including delicate shapes. This indicates no fragment transport. Fragments vary significantly in size, but most are lapilli-sized (= volcanic fragments between 2 and 64 millimeters). At this particular site, the lapilli are finer-grained (~pea-sized clasts) than in the volcanic edifice-proximal deposits (see elsewhere in this photo album). They were deposited more distally. Stratigraphy: Middle Tholeiitic Unit, Kidd-Munro Assemblage, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, lower Neoarchean, 2.711-2.719 Ga Locality: outcrop along ridge just south of little dirt road that is due-east of the Potter Mine & due-west of Pyke Hill, north of Route 101, east-northeast of Matheson & south of the western end of Lake Abitibi & ~83 kilometers east of the city of Timmins, Munro Township, southern Cochrane District, eastern Ontario, southeastern Canada (vicinity of 48° 35' 54.89" North latitude, 80° 12' 31.33" West longitude) (= locality 2d east of the Potter Mine in Fyon & Green, 1991 - Geology and ore deposits of the Timmins District, Ontario (field trip 6), Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2161, p. 27 (fig. N12).) (= stop 2.2D1 of Houlé et al., 2010 - Stratigraphy and physical volcanology of komatiites and associated Ni-Cu-(PGE) mineralization in the western Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Timmins area, Ontario: a field trip for the 11th International Platinum Symposium. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6255, p. 34 (figure 16) & p. 39.) |
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| Source | Basaltic lapillistone (Middle Tholeiitic Unit, Kidd-Munro Assemblage, Neoarchean, 2.711-2.719 Ga; just east of the Potter Mine, east of Timmins, Ontario, Canada) 32 |
| Author | James St. John |
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