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Lithophile and Chalcophile Elements in Sphalerite from the Anarraaq Sediment-Hosted Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Red Dog District, Alaska
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The age of many sedimentary hosted base metal deposits has been a topic of debate for several decades, due to a lack of minerals ideal for geochronological age in these systems. One technique is focused on dating the ore minerals (sphalerite) directly with the Rb-Sr method. The main issue with...
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The Quandary of the Sask Craton: Origin and Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle beneath the Sask Craton
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Mantle xenoliths from the Cretaceous (~106 to ~95 Ma) kimberlites at Fort à la Corne (FALC) present a unique opportunity to study the lithospheric mantle beneath the newly recognised Sask Craton. The Sask Craton, a small terrane with Archean (3.2 - 2.5 Ga) crustal ages, is enclosed in the...
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Spring 2020
The Pikoo kimberlites of east-central Saskatchewan are a relatively recent discovery, comprising at least ten discreet bodies thought to erupt through the Sask Craton, a small Archean microcontinent enclosed within the Paleoproterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogen. Since the Sask Craton also plays host...
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Spring 2020
Gahcho Kué is a diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada that opened in 2016. This is the first study into the morphology, N systematics, and stable isotope (C and N) composition of the Gahcho Kué diamonds, and the mineral chemistry of the associated inclusions. The resulting data are...
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The petrography and mineral chemistry of melt-intruded mantle xenoliths from the Chidliak kimberlite field, Baffin Island, Canada
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The nature of kimberlitic melts at mantle depths and their interaction with mantle wall-rocks is poorly constrained. This is due to the scarcity of mantle xenoliths and xenocrysts that have preserved this interaction without disaggregating during their transport to Earth’s surface. This thesis...
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Spring 2022
This work presents new petrography, mineral major and trace element chemistry, whole rock major and trace element chemistry, whole rock Sr-Nd-Hf isotope composition, and phlogopite Rb-Sr isotope geochronology for the Mel kimberlite, Nunavut and Dharma kimberlite, Northwest Territories. This data...
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Implications of in situ zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf, oxygen-isotope, and trace element geochemistry on the petrogenetic history of the northern Hogem batholith in the Quesnel terrane, north-central British Columbia, Canadian Cordillera
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The Cordilleran orogen of western Canada is a type example of accretionary tectonism and thus an ideal location to study continental growth by oceanic and continental arc magmatism and terrane accretion. Cordilleran Intermontane terranes are interpreted as accreted oceanic arcs that contributed...