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Record W2087406089 · doi:10.4138/2378

Petrology, age, and tectonic setting of The Wolves Pluton: implications for Appalachian terranes in the western Bay of Fundy region

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Heather A. Wolczanski, Sandra M. Barr, Brent V. Miller

Bibliographic record

VenueAtlantic Geology · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeological and Geochemical Analysis
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuartz monzoniteGeologyPlutonTerraneDioriteGeochemistryMaficXenolithFelsicBasaltPetrologyZirconTectonicsPaleontology

Abstract

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The Wolves Islands are located in the Bay of Fundy, approximately 10 km offshore from mainland southwestern New Brunswick. They consist mainly of monzodiorite, gradational to diorite, quartz diorite, and quartz monzodiorite, with minor tonalite and quartz monzonite, herein termed collectively The Wolves Pluton. Finer grained dioritic xenoliths are abundant in all the units. Rare syenite dykes and scattered mafic dykes intrude the pluton. Samples from monzodiorite unit have silica concentrations ranging from 47.6% to 59.6% whereas tonalite quartz monzonite samples are more felsic (65.4% to 73.3%, and about 69%, respectively). The xenoliths are generally similar in mineralogy and chemical composition to the dioritic part of the monzodiorite unit, although finer grained, and range in silica concentration from 49.2% to 54.7%. Based on continuity and similarity of chemical trends and patterns, the monzodiorite, tonalite, and quartz monzonite, as well as the xenoliths, are interpreted to be co-magmatic. They constitute a calc-alkalic, I-type granitoid suite that likely formed in a volcanic arc setting. A sample of quartz monzodiorite from East Wolf Island yielded an Early Silurian U-Pb age of 436.4 ± 1.2 Ma, showing that The Wolves are not related to the Late Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian plutonic rocks of the Caledonia, Brookville, and New River terranes, and Grand Manan Island. They are older than plutons of the Coastal Maine Magmatic Province. The best match in age is with Lower Silurian volcanic and granitic units of the Kingston terrane; although the rocks on The Wolves differ petrologically from those of the Kingston terrane, chemical and Sm-Nd isotopic similarities suggest that The Wolves Pluton might represent a deeper part of the Kingston volcanic arc.
 
 
 Résumé
 Les îles appelées The Wolves sont situées dans la baie de Fundy, à une dizaine de kilomètres au large de la partie intérieure du Sud-Ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick. Elles reposent sur une unité de jotunite passant graduellement à de la diorite, de la diorite quartzique et de la jotunite quartzique, accompagnée d’une unité secondaire de tonalite et d’adamellite, collectivement appelées dans le présent résumé le pluton The Wolves. Les xénolites dioritiques à grains plus fins sont abondants dans toutes les unités. De rares dykes syénitiques et des dykes mafiques dispersés pénètrent le pluton. Les échantillons de l’unité de jotunite renferment des concentrations de silice variant entre 47,6% et 59,6% (en moyenne 54,5%), tandis que les chantillons de tonalite comportent des concentrations supérieures de SiO2 variant entre 65,4% et 73,3% (en moyenne 69,6%) et que deux échantillons d’adamellite renferment environ 69% de SiO2. Même si les xénolites présentent des grains plus fins, ils ont généralement une composition minéralogique et chimique similaire (49,2 à 54,7% de SiO2) à la partie dioritique de l’unité de jotunite. S’appuyant sur la continuité et la similarité des tendances et des configurations chimiques, on interprète la jotunite, la tonalité et l’adamellite, tout comme les xénolites dioritiques, en tant qu’éléments comagmatiques. Ils constituent un cortège granitique de type intrusif, calco-alcalin, qui s’est probablement formé dans une zone de subduction. Un échantillon de jotunite de l’île East Wolf a donné par datation U-Pb un âge du Silurien précoce de 436,4 ± 1,2 Ma, ce qui évèle que le pluton The Wolves n’est pas apparenté aux roches plutoniques du Néoprotérozoïque tardif au Cambrien précoce des terranes de Caledonia, de Brookville et de New River ni à l’île Grand Manan. Les îles sont plus âgées que les plutons du Silurien tardif au Dévonien de la province magmatique de la côte du Maine. Le meilleur jumelage possible selon l’âge est celui avec les unités volcaniques et granitiques du Silurien inférieur du terrane de Kingston, même si les roches du pluton The Wolves diffèrent du point de vue pétrologique du granite essentiellement à grains fins typiquement dénudé dans le terrane de Kingston. La similarité de l’âge et le cadre tectonique présumé, ainsi que leurs signatures epsilon Nd positives similaires, laissent supposer que le pluton The Wolves pourrait représenter une partie plus profonde de l’arc volcanique de Kingston. Le cas échéant, l’emplacement du pluton The Wolves nécessite apparemment un décalage senestre du terrain de Kingston vers le sud-est.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score0.954

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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