| Abstract: | Plutonic rocks have been intersected by two separate drill holes on souteastern Cape Cod. Hole CC2 is located about 7 km south of the Nauset anomaly, an east-northeast-trending magnetic lineament that was considered to separate the distinct plutonic zones of Avalon terrane. This drill hole intersected weakly foliated, fairly homogeneous biotite granite. Zircons from this granite give a U-Pb age of 584+9/-8 Ma. Hole CC1 is located about 12 km north of the Nauset anomaly. The drill core intersected foliated, sheared, biotite granodiorite and biotite-hornblende-clinopyroxene-quartz gabbro, metamorphosed to greenschist facies. The deformed and altered state of these rocks, as well as their geochemistry, suggest that their origin and possibly their ages are distinct from the granite in hole CC2. No datable zircons were obtained from rocks in CC1. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Leo, G. W.; Mortensen, J. K.; Barreiro, B.; Phillips, J. D. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Atlantic Geology |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Petrology and U-Pb geochronology of buried Avalonian plutonic rocks on southeastern Cape Cod; 1993; Article; Journal; Atlantic Geology; Leo, G. W.; Mortensen, J. K.; Barreiro, B.; Phillips, J. D. |
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| Citation Volume: | 29 |
| Citation Year: | 1993 |
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| Text: | Petrology and U-Pb geochronology of buried Avalonian plutonic rocks on southeastern Cape Cod; 1993; Article; Journal; Atlantic Geology; Leo, G. W.; Mortensen, J. K.; Barreiro, B.; Phillips, J. D. |
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| Date Other: | Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00 -0600 |
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