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Geologic Unit: Keewatin
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    • Keewatin Group*
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  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Lake Superior region
Publication:

Day, W.C., 1990, Petrology of the Rainy Lake area, Minnesota, USA; implications of petrotectonic setting of the Archean southern Wabigoon subprovince of the Canadian Shield: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 105, no. 3, p. 303-321.


Summary:

Extended from ON, CN into MN part of Rainy Lake area within western extension of Wabigoon subprovince of Superior Province (Lake Superior region). Because area is highly deformed, stratigraphic relations cannot be extended for more than a few km along strike. Consists mostly of volcanic rocks with subordinate mafic intrusive rocks and epiclastic and chemical sedimentary rocks which have undergone regional metamorphism. Underlies Coutchiching Group; is the oldest of Late Archean (2.7 Ga) granite-greenstone belt rocks in Rainy Lake area.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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