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Author: | Charette et al., 2016 |
Age: | Archean; Paleoproterozoic |
Stratotype: | None |
Type area: | Jeannin Lake area (NTS sheet 24B) |
Geological province: | Churchill Province |
Geological subdivision: | Rachel-Laporte Lithotectonic Domain |
Lithology: | Porphyraceous monzonite and monzodiorite |
Category: | Lithodemic |
Rank: | Complex |
Status: | Formal |
Use: | Active |
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The Boullé Complex was introduced in the Jeannin Lake area (Charette et al., 2016) to group a package of porphyraceous intermediate intrusions circumscribed to a thrust sheet of the Rachel-Laporte Lithotectonic Domain; hence it is a structural complex.
The Boullé Complex consists of K-feldspar porphyritic intermediate intrusive rocks and syenogranite, all moderately magnetic and well foliated to protomylonitic. The different facies are generally observed together on outcrops and it was not possible to differentiate them at mapping scale 1:250 000.
Porphyraceous rock contains 15-20% microcline phenocrystals 0.5-2 cm long. Their composition varies from monzonite to quartz monzodiorite, including monzodiorite. Monzogranite is also locally observed. Intermediate rocks are partially recrystallized and dark grey with pink flecks in fresh exposure. They contain 25-35% ferromagnesian minerals including greenish brown biotite, locally chloritized, and hornblende. K-feldspar is also found in the matrix. Quartz is sparse (<3%) and plagioclase is variably sericitized. Myrmekitic textures are common and accessory minerals are relatively abundant. These include sphene, epidote, opaque minerals, apatite and allanite. Monzogranite is pale pink and contains up to 30% centimetric microcline phenocrystals and only 10% ferromagnesian minerals consisting of biotite.
Syenogranite is partially recrystallized, medium grained, very well foliated or lineated, and pink. It contains 3-7% greenish brown biotite, locally chloritized, which forms small millimetric to centimetric clusters. Quartz regularly forms small, discontinuous millimetric bands and exhibits undulatory extinction in thin sections. Muscovite and hematite are observed as accessory minerals. Centimetre to metre-wide layers or elongated enclaves of the porphyraceous facies are commonly observed in syenogranite.
The Boullé Complex is located in the NW portion of the Jeannin Lake area (Charette et al., 2016), where it forms a thrust sheet ~30 km long by 8 km wide elongated in a NW-SE direction within the Rachel-Laporte Lithotectonic Domain. The latter represents the eastern part of the New Quebec Orogen.
An age of 2690 Ma was obtained in a monzonite of the Boullé Complex. Protoliths of gneiss or deformed intrusive rocks that form thrust sheets of the Rachel-Laporte Domain are all Archean (2668-2883 Ma). These various thrust sheets are interpreted as having overthrusted Paleoproterozoic rocks during the New Quebec Orogenesis (1.82-1.77 Ga).
Unit | Sample Number | Isotopic System | Mineral | Crystallization Age (Ma) | (+) | (-) | Reference(s) |
ApPbue | 15-MO-7075 | U-Pb | Zircon | 2690 | 4 | 4 | Rayner et al., 2017 |
The Boullé Complex consists of Archean rocks circumscribed to a thrust sheet from the Archean basement. This sheet is believed to have been emplaced within Paleoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Rachel-Laporte Lithotectonic Domain during the New Quebec Orogenesis. It is therefore in fault contact with volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Laporte Supersuite.
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Author(s) | Title | Year of Publication | Hyperlink (EXAMINE or Other) |
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CHARETTE, B. – LAFRANCE, I. – MATHIEU, G. | Géologie de la région du lac Jeannin (SNRC 24B). Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles, Québec. | 2016 | |
DIMROTH, E. | Région de la Fosse du Labrador, Ministère des Richesses naturelles, Québec; RG 193, 396 pages. | 1978 | RG 193 |
LAFRANCE, I. – SIMARD, M. – BANDYAYERA, D. | Géologie de la région du lac Saffray (SNRC 24G-24F). Ministère des Ressources naturelles, Québec; RG 2014-02, 49 pages. | 2014 | RG 2014-02 |
RAYNER, N.M. – LAFRANCE, I. – CORRIGAN, D. – CHARETTE, B. | New U-Pb zircon ages of plutonic rocks from the lac Jeannin area, Quebec: an evaluation of the Kuujjuaq domain and Rachel-Laporte zone. | 2017 | Source |
SIMARD, M. – LAFRANCE, I. – HAMMOUCHE, H. – LEGOUIX, C. | Géologie de la région de Kuujjuaq et de la Baie d’Ungava (SNRC 24J et 24K). Ministère des Ressources naturelles, Québec; RG 2013-04, 60 pages. | 2013 | RG 2013-04 |