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New insights from field observations of the Younger giant dyke complex and mafic lamprophyres of the gardar province on Tuttutooq island, South Greenland

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16/06/2021
Author
Koopmans, Lot
Webster, Robert A.
Changleng, Rory
Mathieson, Lucy
Murphy, Alasdair J.
Finch, Adrian A.
McCarthy, William
Keywords
Gardar Province
Lamprophyre
Magma chamber
Rift magmatism
Younger giant dyke complex
GE Environmental Sciences
QE Geology
Geology
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Abstract
The Gardar Province of south Greenland is defined by the products of alkaline igneous magmatism during the Mesoproterozoic. The most laterally extensive Gardar intrusions are a series of giant dyke complexes best exposed on the Tuttutooq archipelago. We present new field observations and a geological map of north-east Tuttutooq island that provide fresh insights into the temporal evolution of the Younger giant dyke complex and two associated ultramafic lamprophyres. Our data demonstrate that distinctive crystallisation regimes occurred in different sectors of the dyke complex, leading to the formation of marginal gabbros and ovoid pod-like domains displaying lamination, modal layering and/or more evolved differentiates. We infer that at least two pulses of magma contributed to the formation of the Younger giant dyke complex. In addition, the relative ages of two ultramafic lamprophyre diatremes are constrained and attributed to two distinct phases of rifting in the Gardar Province.
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Koopmans , L , Webster , R A , Changleng , R , Mathieson , L , Murphy , A J , Finch , A A & McCarthy , W 2021 , ' New insights from field observations of the Younger giant dyke complex and mafic lamprophyres of the gardar province on Tuttutooq island, South Greenland ' , Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin , vol. 47 , 6526 . https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v47.6526
Publication
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v47.6526
ISSN
1604-8156
Type
Journal article
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Copyright (c) 2021 Lot Koopmans, Robert A. Webster, Rory Changleng, Lucy Mathieson, Alasdair J. Murphy, Adrian A. Finch, William McCarthy. Open Access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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LK, RW, RC, LM and AM received funding from the Mining Institute of Scotland, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Edinburgh Geological Society, the Augustine Courtauld Trust and the Scott Polar Research Institute. LK received funding from the Society of Economic Geology Hickok-Radford Fund.
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https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/6526/14176
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23544

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