The “Déat Granite” was informally named by van der Leeden (1994) in the Hutte Sauvage Lake area. The unit was formally redefined as the Déat Suite by Charette et al. (2019) during compilation as part of the Southeastern Churchill Province (SECP) regional synthesis (Lafrance et al., 2018).

Unit pPdea1 consists of porphyraceous granodiorite, monzogranite and quartz monzodiorite associated with strong magnetic susceptibility. It includes some of the rocks of subunit F2a of van der Leeden (1994). The unit is characterized by a dark grey fine to medium-grained matrix containing 10 to 25% microcline phenocrystals 0.5 to 1.5 cm long (up to 6 cm locally). Microcline is also present as fine interstitial crystals in the matrix (10%). The rock is generally foliated, locally massive, rarely lineated. Ferromagnesian minerals make up 20 to 25% of the mode and consist of brown to green biotite, with some hornblende in places. When present, preferential orientation is given by the alignment of ferromagnesian minerals and stretching of microcline phenocrystals.

Accessory minerals are abundant (up to 5%) and generally form large euhedral crystals next to ferromagnesian minerals. They include, in order of importance, epidote, clinozoisite, sphene, allanite, apatite, zircon, opaque minerals and chlorite (free or replacing biotite). Thin sections show grain reduction along the phenocrystal edges, quartz zones with subgrain extinction, dented edges and deformed twinning, and kinked biotite. Phenocrystals often contain inclusions of all other minerals present, and plagioclase is moderately sericitized. Van der Leeden (1994) also reports trace fluorine north of the Déat River mouth.