Crustal-scale geology and fault geometry along the gold-endowed Matheson transect of the Abitibi greenstone belt
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985530%3A_____%2F21%3A00544275" target="_blank" >RIV/67985530:_____/21:00544275 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/segweb/economicgeology/article-abstract/116/5/1053/594206/Crustal-Scale-Geology-and-Fault-Geometry-Along-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" >https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/segweb/economicgeology/article-abstract/116/5/1053/594206/Crustal-Scale-Geology-and-Fault-Geometry-Along-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4813" target="_blank" >10.5382/econgeo.4813</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Crustal-scale geology and fault geometry along the gold-endowed Matheson transect of the Abitibi greenstone belt
Original language description
Gold in the Abitibi greenstone belt in the Superior craton, the most prolific gold-producing greenstone terrane in the world, comes largely from complex orogenic mineralizing systems related to deep crustal deformation zones. In order to get a better understanding of these systems, we therefore combined new magnetic, gravity, seismic, and magnetotelluric data with stratigraphic and structural observations along a transect in the Matheson area of the Abitibi greenstone belt to constrain large-scale geologic models of the Archean crust. A high-resolution seismic transect reveals that the well-known Porcupine Destor fault dips shallowly to the south, whereas the Pipestone fault dips steeply to the north. Facing directions and gravity models indicate that these faults are thrust faults where older mafic volcanic rocks overlie a younger sedimentary basin. The depth of the basin reaches similar to 2 to 2.5 km between these two faults, where it is interpreted to overlie mafic-dominated volcanic substrata. Regional seismic and magnetotelluric surveys image the full crust down to 36-km depth to reveal a heterogeneous architecture. The significant resistivity transition between upper and middle crust is interpreted to be the result of interconnected micrographite grain coating, precipitated from carbon-bearing crustal fluids emplaced during Neoarchean craton stabilization. A major subvertical, seismically transparent, and extremely low resistive (<10 Omega m) corridor connects the lower and middle crust with the upper crust. The geometry of this low-resistivity feature supports its interpretation as a deep-rooted extensional fault system where the corridor acted as a regional-scale conduit for gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids from a ductile source region in the lower crust to the depositional site in the brittle upper crust. We propose that this newly discovered whole crustal corridor focused the hydrothermal fluids into the Porcupine Destor fault in the Matheson region.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10505 - Geology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Economic Geology
ISSN
0361-0128
e-ISSN
1554-0774
Volume of the periodical
116
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1053-1072
UT code for WoS article
000656493900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85107918677