Re: 2008 43-101
in response to
by
posted on
Oct 28, 2012 10:21PM
Discovery and development of precious metals - New Brunswick & Manitoba
The Rocky Brook-Millstream Fault forms the break between the Tobique and Chaleur
subzones of the Chaleur Bay Synclinorium, and father southeast, constitutes the tectonic
contact between the Chaleur Bay Synclinorium and the Aroostook-Percé Anticlinorium (Fig).
Silurian stratigraphy of the Chaleur Group shows marked contrasts on opposite sides of the
fault (Wilson et al., 2005). However, the sequence of Simpsons Field–LaPlante–Free Grant
strata observed south of the fault is also observed north of the fault farther east, allowing the
post-Silurian dextral displacement to be estimated at 30 km (Dimitrov et al., 2004). The bulk
of this offset occurred prior to 380 Ma because the maximum dextral offset of the Nicholas
Dénys Granodiorite (381 ± 4 Ma) near the Ann’s Creek property is only one kilometre
(Walker et al., 1991). Stratigraphic evidence implies that the Rocky Brook-Millstream Fault
was active during (Ludlovian) deposition of the Simpsons Field Formation, and controlled
the deposition of the Chaleurs Group in the southeast (Walker et al., 1993; Dimitrov et al.,
2003).
Read more at http://www.stockhouse.com/bullboards/messagedetail.aspx?s=PUM&t=LIST&m=31708473&l=0&pd=2&r=0#6uh4OUM2a2gIuoFH.99