Geologically-constrained inversion of geophysical data is a powerful method for predicting geology beneath cover. The process seeks 3D physical property models that are consistent with the geology and explain measured geophysical responses. The recovered models can guide mineral explorers to prospective host rocks, structures, alteration and mineralisation. This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of how the University of British Columbia Geophysical Inversion Facility (UBC–GIF) gravity and magnetic inversions can be applied to subsurface mapping and exploration by demonstrating the necessary approach, data types, and typical results. The non-uniqueness of inversion demands that geological information be included. Commonly available geological data, including structural and physical property measurements, mapping, drilling, and 3D interpretations, can be translated into appropriate inversion constraints using tools developed herein. Surface information provides the greatest improvement in the reliability of recovered models; drilling information enhances resolution at depth. The process used to prepare inversions is as important as the geological constraints themselves. Use of a systematic workflow, as developed in this study, minimises any introduced ambiguity. Key steps include defining the problem, preparing the data, setting inversion parameters and developing geological constraints. Once reliable physical property models are recovered they must be interpreted in a geological context. Where alteration and mineralisation occupy significant volumes, the mineralogy associated with the physical properties can be identified; otherwise a lithological classification of the properties can be applied. This approach is used to develop predictive 3D lithological maps from geologically-constrained gravity and magnetic inversions at several scales in the Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt in Australia’s Yilgarn Craton. These maps indicate a spatial correlation between thick mafic-ultramafic rock packages and gold deposit locations, suggesting a shared structural control. The maps also identify structural geometries and relationships consistent with the published regional tectonic framework. Geophysical inversion provides a framework into which geological and geophysical data sets can be integrated to produce a holistic prediction of the subsurface. The best possible result is one that cannot be dismissed as inconsistent with some piece of geological knowledge. Such a model can only be recovered by including all available geological knowledge using a consistent workflow process. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

Le massif du Mayo Kebbi, situé au sud-ouest du Tchad entre le craton du Congo au Sud, le craton Ouest Africain à l’Ouest et le Métacraton du Sahara à l’Est, expose un segment de croûte juvenile néoprotérozoïque accrété dans la ceinture orogénique d’Afrique Centrale durant l’orogène Pan-Africaine. Il est constitué de deux ceintures de roches vertes (Zalbi et Goueygoudoum) séparées par le batholithe calco-alcalin du Mayo Kebbi et recoupées par des plutons à signature calco-alcaline hyperpotassique. Le tout est recouvert par des formations sédimentaires phanérozoïques. Les ceintures de roches vertes contiennent des zones minéralisées en sulfures encaissées par les roches métaplutoniques (granodiorites) et métavolcanosédimentaires (métabasaltes). La minéralisation est constituée d’un assemblage métallique à pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsénopyrite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, pentlandite argentifère, pentlandite cobaltifère, sphalérite, de cobaltite. Les sulfures se trouvent à l’état disséminé ou sous forme de remplissage de fissures. Les roches vertes comprennent également des filons de quartz à calcite-chlorite et encaissant des minéralisations à pyrite, chalcopyrite, galène et or. L’analyse de l’or indique une association systématique avec l’argent. Le pluton calco-alcalin hyperpotassique de Zabili contient des indices de minéralisations en Uranium liés à la superposition de : (1) déformation ductile et altération métasomatique impliquant l'interaction entre les minéraux magmatiques avec un fluide riche en Na, d'origine magmatique, contemporain au dépôt d’oxydes d'uranium, (2) une déformation fragile et le dépôt de silicates hydratés d'uranium secondaires impliquant un fluide riche en Na-Ca. La minéralisation en uranium s’exprime sous forme d’uraninite, d’ekanite, de kasolite, de brannerite, et de silicates d’uranium tels que la coffinite. Un âge U-Th-Pb de 599 +/- 4 Ma a été obtenu sur des grains de monazite hydrothermales. Ces minéralisations d'uranium représentent l'expression extrême de la différenciation de la croûte, suite à la remobilisation de ce segment de croûte juvénile Néoprotérozoïque au cours de l’orogénèse Pan-Africaine / The Mayo Kebbi massiflocated in southwestern Chad between the Congo craton in the South, the West African craton in the west and the Sahara metacraton to the east exposes a segment of Neoproterozoic juvenile crust accreted in the Central African orogenic belt during the Pan African orogeny. It consists of two greenstone belts (Zalbi and Goueygoudoum) separated by the May Kebbi calc-alkaline batholith complexes and intruded by calc-alkaline high-K granitic plutons. The whole is covered by Phanerozoic sedimentary formations. The greenstone belts contain sulphide zones hosted mainly by metaplutonic rocks (granodiorites) and metabasalts and metavolcaniclastics. The mineralization comprises pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, pentlandite silver, pentlandite cobaltiferous, sphalerite, cobaltite. These sulphides are disseminated, aggregated in form of layers or are filling veins and cracks. The greenstones also contain quartz veins with calcite and chlorite comprising a mineralization made of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and gold. Gold is present both as native crystals and as electrum. The high-K calc-alkaline Zabili granitic pluton hosts uranium mineralization related to a superposition of: (1) ductile deformation and metasomatic alteration implying the interaction between magmatic minerals with a Na-rich fluid, of potential magmatic origin, coeval to the main deposition of uranium oxides, followed by (2) brittle deformation and deposition of secondary hydrated uranium silicates involving a Na-Ca-rich fluid. We propose that these uranium mineralizations represent the extreme expression of crustal differentiation as a result of Pan-African reworking of a Neoproterozoic juvenile crustal segment

O Quadrilátero Ferrífero (MG) é uma importante unidade geotectônica do Cráton do São Francisco que alberga jazidas de ferro e ouro hospedadas na seqüência greenstone belt Rio das Velhas e cuja evolução geodinâmica esteve regida por vários eventos tectonometamórficos. Depósitos de ouro gerados por fluidos epitermais e remobilizações orogênicas proterozóicas se associam intimamente com camadas bandas de ferro e raramente disseminados em metapelitos no topo do greenstone. Nas mineralizações é comum uma paragênese que cristalizou mediante diversos processos e em distintos estágios com predomínio de sulfetos de ferro. Em geral os minérios possuem forte controle estrutural por dobras, falhas e cisalhamentos transcorrentes, desenvolvidos durante vários eventos deformacionais de diversa índole e estreita relação com processos de alteração hidrotermal como sericitização, carbonatação, cloritização, entre outros de menor incidência. O depósito de ouro Córrego do Sítio hospeda-se na seqüência silisiclástica de origem turbidítica metamorfisada em fácies xisto verde denominada Associação de Litofácies Ressedimentada que faz parte do Grupo Nova Lima, se apresenta disseminado em metapelitos e em veios de quartzo com carbonato. A mineralização que acompanha o ouro cristalizou em vários estágios principais nos que predominaram (i) pirita + pirrotita, (ii) arsenopirita + pirrotita + pirita com texturas finas e orientadas, (iii) arsenopirita com pirrotita e sulfosais em veios de quartzo, (iv) pirita grossa pervasiva em todas as rochas hospedeiras. O estudo da composição isotópica Pb, Sr e Nd, permitiu identificar que as fontes dos fluidos mineralizantes foram as rochas hospedeiras, que na evolução policíclica da mineralização participaram eventos metamórficos e hidrotermais a 2.2, 2.0 Ga. e sobreimpostos a ~600 Ma. os quais induziram os processos de circulação hidrotermal na área de estudo. Mediante comparativa com outros depósitos da região, sugere-se que os metais formadores do minério depositaram-se em Córrego do Sítio à idade de 2.2 Ga. originados a partir da BIF tipo São Bento e remobilizados por fluidos através de falhas inversas. Análises geocronológicas U-Pb (SHRIMP) e K-Ar embora não decisivos em quanto à determinação da idade da mineralização, revelaram a idade de ~2.7 Ga. como o limite temporal para a deposição das rochas hospedeiras. No contexto geológico aplicado se estabelece a potencialidade para a prospecção aurífera que apresentam as rochas metapelíticas do topo do Greenstone Belt Rio das Velas associadas a camadas bandadas de ferro com ouro, e que os alvos mais relevantes seriam zonas com falhas inversas e cisalhamentos transcorrentes. / The Quadrilátero Ferrífero is an important geotectonic unit of the São Francisco Craton that host iron and gold deposits within the vulcanosedimentary rocks of the greenstone belt Rio das Velhas. The geodynamic evolution of this greenstone includes several tectonometamorphic events. Gold deposits were formed by epithermal fluids, remobilized during the Proterozoic orogenic processes, are associated whit the banded iron formations and are sporadically disseminate in metapelitic rocks within the top of the greenstone sequence. In the ores is common the crystallization of iron sulfide minerals during diverse stages. Gold deposits have an important structural control by folds, reverse faults and strike-slip shearing zones, and are commons several hydrothermal alteration processes like sericitization, chloritization and carbonate usually related to the deformation. The Córrego do Sítio gold deposit is hosted in turbiditic siliciclastic rocks that are metamorphosed in the greenschist facies. The gold is associated with the iron sulfide arsenopyrite and pyrite, which are disseminated in metapelitic rocks and quartz-carbonate veins. The mineralization includes vary stages of crystallization, (1) pyrite and pyrrotite (2) arsenopyrite, pyrrotite and fine pyrite, (3) arsenopyrite whit pyrrotite and sulphosalts in quartz vein, and (4) pervasive pyrite. An integrated Pb, Sr e Nd, isotopic study of the Córrego do Sítio deposit allowed to identify that sources of the mineralizing fluids was the host rocks, that in the policiclic evolution the gold mineralizaton had participation events of metamorphism and hidrothermalism to age 2.2, 2.0 and 0.6 Ga. respectively the wich induced the hydrothermal circulation processes in the study area. The isotopic character of this deposit and its comparison with similar ones, suggest that the gold and its metals associated it is deposited in Córrego do Sítio to age 2.2 Ga. and that metals were derived from the banded iron formations, and remobilized by hidrothermal fluids across reverse faults. Although U-Pb (SHRIMP) and K-Ar geochronologic data were not conclusive to constrain the age of the mineralization, they provide to age ~2.7 Ga. that a good limit for the sedimentation of the host rock. It is suggest that there is a potential for gold prospection within the metapellitic rocks associated with banded iron formation of the Greenstone Rio das Velhas, and that the more relevant targets include areas with inverse and strike-slip fault.

O Quadrilátero Ferrífero (MG) é uma importante unidade geotectônica do Cráton do São Francisco que alberga jazidas de ferro e ouro hospedadas na seqüência greenstone belt Rio das Velhas e cuja evolução geodinâmica esteve regida por vários eventos tectonometamórficos. Depósitos de ouro gerados por fluidos epitermais e remobilizações orogênicas proterozóicas se associam intimamente com camadas bandas de ferro e raramente disseminados em metapelitos no topo do greenstone. Nas mineralizações é comum uma paragênese que cristalizou mediante diversos processos e em distintos estágios com predomínio de sulfetos de ferro. Em geral os minérios possuem forte controle estrutural por dobras, falhas e cisalhamentos transcorrentes, desenvolvidos durante vários eventos deformacionais de diversa índole e estreita relação com processos de alteração hidrotermal como sericitização, carbonatação, cloritização, entre outros de menor incidência. O depósito de ouro Córrego do Sítio hospeda-se na seqüência silisiclástica de origem turbidítica metamorfisada em fácies xisto verde denominada Associação de Litofácies Ressedimentada que faz parte do Grupo Nova Lima, se apresenta disseminado em metapelitos e em veios de quartzo com carbonato. A mineralização que acompanha o ouro cristalizou em vários estágios principais nos que predominaram (i) pirita + pirrotita, (ii) arsenopirita + pirrotita + pirita com texturas finas e orientadas, (iii) arsenopirita com pirrotita e sulfosais em veios de quartzo, (iv) pirita grossa pervasiva em todas as rochas hospedeiras. O estudo da composição isotópica Pb, Sr e Nd, permitiu identificar que as fontes dos fluidos mineralizantes foram as rochas hospedeiras, que na evolução policíclica da mineralização participaram eventos metamórficos e hidrotermais a 2.2, 2.0 Ga. e sobreimpostos a ~600 Ma. os quais induziram os processos de circulação hidrotermal na área de estudo. Mediante comparativa com outros depósitos da região, sugere-se que os metais formadores do minério depositaram-se em Córrego do Sítio à idade de 2.2 Ga. originados a partir da BIF tipo São Bento e remobilizados por fluidos através de falhas inversas. Análises geocronológicas U-Pb (SHRIMP) e K-Ar embora não decisivos em quanto à determinação da idade da mineralização, revelaram a idade de ~2.7 Ga. como o limite temporal para a deposição das rochas hospedeiras. No contexto geológico aplicado se estabelece a potencialidade para a prospecção aurífera que apresentam as rochas metapelíticas do topo do Greenstone Belt Rio das Velas associadas a camadas bandadas de ferro com ouro, e que os alvos mais relevantes seriam zonas com falhas inversas e cisalhamentos transcorrentes. / The Quadrilátero Ferrífero is an important geotectonic unit of the São Francisco Craton that host iron and gold deposits within the vulcanosedimentary rocks of the greenstone belt Rio das Velhas. The geodynamic evolution of this greenstone includes several tectonometamorphic events. Gold deposits were formed by epithermal fluids, remobilized during the Proterozoic orogenic processes, are associated whit the banded iron formations and are sporadically disseminate in metapelitic rocks within the top of the greenstone sequence. In the ores is common the crystallization of iron sulfide minerals during diverse stages. Gold deposits have an important structural control by folds, reverse faults and strike-slip shearing zones, and are commons several hydrothermal alteration processes like sericitization, chloritization and carbonate usually related to the deformation. The Córrego do Sítio gold deposit is hosted in turbiditic siliciclastic rocks that are metamorphosed in the greenschist facies. The gold is associated with the iron sulfide arsenopyrite and pyrite, which are disseminated in metapelitic rocks and quartz-carbonate veins. The mineralization includes vary stages of crystallization, (1) pyrite and pyrrotite (2) arsenopyrite, pyrrotite and fine pyrite, (3) arsenopyrite whit pyrrotite and sulphosalts in quartz vein, and (4) pervasive pyrite. An integrated Pb, Sr e Nd, isotopic study of the Córrego do Sítio deposit allowed to identify that sources of the mineralizing fluids was the host rocks, that in the policiclic evolution the gold mineralizaton had participation events of metamorphism and hidrothermalism to age 2.2, 2.0 and 0.6 Ga. respectively the wich induced the hydrothermal circulation processes in the study area. The isotopic character of this deposit and its comparison with similar ones, suggest that the gold and its metals associated it is deposited in Córrego do Sítio to age 2.2 Ga. and that metals were derived from the banded iron formations, and remobilized by hidrothermal fluids across reverse faults. Although U-Pb (SHRIMP) and K-Ar geochronologic data were not conclusive to constrain the age of the mineralization, they provide to age ~2.7 Ga. that a good limit for the sedimentation of the host rock. It is suggest that there is a potential for gold prospection within the metapellitic rocks associated with banded iron formation of the Greenstone Rio das Velhas, and that the more relevant targets include areas with inverse and strike-slip fault.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Tese_EvolucaoTectonoEstrutural.pdf: 252593908 bytes, checksum: 5d709af96fbe33c28c6e2bc743f757e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1993-12-17 / CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / No interior do Bloco Brasília, na Região de Dianópolis-Almas (SE do Estado de Tocantins), encontram-se registros de terrenos granito-"greenstone" do Arqueano-Proterozóico Inferior, metassedimentos proterozóicos do Grupo Bambuí, depósitos continentais cretácicos e colúvios e alúvios lateritizados, além de depósitos flúvio-lacustres holocênicos ligados à evolução cenozóica. O Arqueano-Proterozóico Inferior compreende vários feixes de rochas supracrustais do Grupo Riachão do Ouro e corpos de granitóides da Suíte Serra do Boqueirão, ambos embasados por gnaisses do Complexo Alto Paranã. O Complexo Alto Paranã é representado por gnaisses de composição tonalítica, bandados, milonitizados, parcialmente migmatizados, e com enclaves granulíticos e anfibolíticos. O Grupo Riachão do Ouro é composto de filitos bandados, xistos, metadacitos, metariolitos, formação ferrífera, quartzitos, metaconglomerados e brechas; os filitos, os xistos e as metavulcânicas são os tipos litológicos dominantes. A Suíte Serra do Boqueirão engloba granítóides de composição tonalítica, trondhjemítica, granodiorítica e granítica, deformados nas bordas e cortados por fases tardias de auto-injeção ligadas a aplitos e pegmatitos. Estas unidades litológicas estão afetadas por zonas de cisalhamento orientadas nas direções N10-20E, N45E, N25W e N55W, as quais definem um padrão anastomosado. Ao longo dos feixes de zonas de cisalhamento reconhecem-se duplexes transpressivos simétricos ou assimétricos, alternados com faixas de movimentação dominantemente direcional. Tais estruturas estão pronunciadamente desenvolvidas na interface rochas supracrustais-granitóides. Mesoscopicamente as zonas de cisalhamento são caracterizadas pela foliação milonítica, paralela ou em ligeira obliqüidade ao bandamento composicional. Outras estruturas são representadas por duplexes internos, bandas de cisalhamento, lentes de rochas menos deformadas e clivagem extensional do tipo "C'" (clivagem de crenulação), além de zonas de cisalhamento rúptil-dúctil marcadas por estruturas de dilatação. Uma forte trama linear é definida por bastões e barras de quartzo, eixos de agregados elípticos de minerais e minerais placóides alongados e alinhados. A rotação dextral associada é facilmente deduzida a partir de vários critérios cinemáticos. Os estudos de microtrama sugerem que a deformação foi acomodada principalmente por plasticidade cristalina e as tramas de forma e cristalográficas corroboram o sentido de movimentação dextral. Apenas os feixes de zonas de cisalhamento de direção N55W têm movimentação sinistral. Esse conjunto de estruturas é atribuído à atuação de um binário dextral orientado preferencialmente na direção N20E, de modo que as zonas de cisalhamento N10-20E, N45E, N25W e N55W são interpretadas como feições do tipo Y, R, P e R', respectivamente. A evolução da área no Arqueano-Proterozóico Inferior envolveu provavelmente colisão oblíqua entre massas continentais, resultando no soerguimento de rochas granulíticas, seguida de transtensão que originou várias bacias onde se instalaram as rochas supracrustais do Grupo Riachão do Ouro, sendo acompanhada de ascensão dos granitóides da Suíte Serra do Boqueirão. A progressão da deformação é expressa através de transpressão materializada pelas zonas de cisalhamento dúctil e transformações minerais e hidrotermais. O Proterozóico Médio a Superior é representado pelo Grupo Bambuí, o qual compreende ardósias, metassiltitos e filitos, com intercalações de calcários. Como estruturas tectógenas, ligadas à inversão da- Bacia do São Francisco no Proterozóico Superior, destacam-se os cavalgamentos oblíquos submeridianos e as rampas laterais NE-SW. Durante o Mesozóico, depositou-se o pacote de sedimentos da Formação Urucuia (Cretáceo Superior), caracterizado por três litofácies, a saber: (i) fácies conglomerática, que representa pavimentos residuais de deflação eólica e, em parte, acumulações interdunares e "wadi fans" ligados a drenagem intermitente; (ii) fácies arenosa com estratificação cruzada de grande porte, constituída de ortoquartzito e arcóseos/subarcóseos que representam acumulações arenosas eólicas; e (iii) fácies silex estratificado, com estratificação ondulada e irregular, que representa depósitos químicos lacustrinos. A bacia Alto Sanfranciscana, que acolheu esses sedimentos na região estudada, é um hemigráben, cuja arquitetura compreende uma carapaça, falhas normais sintéticas e antitéticas orientadas na direção geral NNW-SSE e falhas de transferência com direção NE-SW e de movimentação principalmente dextral. As falhas normais sintéticas formam um leque imbricado lístrico, mergulhando para E, desenvolvido a partir do colapso da lapa e ligado a um eixo extensional N50E. Durante o Cenozóico, no Terciário, houve a deposição de colúvios e alúvios que foram posteriormente lateritizados sob a forma de um perfil imaturo. No Quaternário instalou-se um sistema flúvio-lacustre. O sistema de drenagem ligado a bacia coletora dos rios Manoel Alves e Araguaia encontra-se fortemente adaptado a lineamentos NE-SW, cuja interação promoveu a edificação de cunhas e romboédros extensionais tipo "pull-apart", provavelmente relacionados à atuação de um binário dextral. / Several geological sequences of rocks with distinct ages of evolution were mapped in the Dianopólis-Almas region (southwestern part of the State of Tocantins) in the Brasília block: an extensive segment of an Archean-Lower Proterozoic granite-greenstone terrain, Proterozoic metasediments of the Bambuí Group, Cretaceous continental deposits of the Urucuia Formation, colluvial and alluvial (partially lateritized) and Holocenic fluvial-lacustrine deposits. The granite-greenstone terrains include several strands of supracrustal rocks (Riachão do Ouro Group) and granitoid bodies (Serra do Boqueirão Suite), both developed over migmatized tonalitic gneisses, granulites and amphibolites of the Alto Paranã Complex. The Riachão do Ouro Group is composed of phyllite, schist, meta-rhyolite, meta-dacite, iron formation, quartzite, metaconglomerate and breccia; phyllite, schist and metavolcanic rocks are the dominant lithologies. The Serra do Boqueirão Suite includes granitoids of tonalitic, trondhjemitic, granodioritic and granitic compositions, which were strongly deformed in the border zones and cut by pegmatite and aplite veins. All there lithological units underwent ductile deformation which formed an anastomosed pattern of N10-20E, N45E, and N55W transcurrent shear zones. Along the shear zones there are asymmetric or symmetric transpressive duplexes alternating with straigth segments. These structures can be seen extensively developed at supracrustal rock-granitoid boundaries and are characterized by mylonitic foliation parallel to the tectonic layering; other structures are represented by internal duplexes, shear bands, pods of less deformed rocks, extensional cleavage of C' type (crenulation cleavage) and brittle-ductile shear zones expressed by dilatation structures (tension gashes). The stretching lineation is defined by rods of quartz, axes of agregates of elliptical minerais and elongated micas. Dextral sense of shearing is determined from kinematic criteria. Microfabric investigation suggest that the deformation was accommodated mainly by crystal plasticity and the crystallographic shape fabrics confirm the dextral sense of shearing. Only the N55W shear zones underwent sinistral movement. The observed sets of structures is interpreted as linked to a N20E dextral strike-slip system and, in this case, the N10-20E, N45E, N25W and N55W zones correspond respectively to Y, R, P and R' zones. The Archean-Lower Proterozoic evolution is understood in terms of an oblique collision of continental segments which uplifted the granulitic rocks and was followed by transtension regime which originated several basins in where the supracrustal rocks of the Riachão do Ouro Group were deposited, and the granitoids of the Serra do Boqueirão Suite were emplaced. The progressive deformation involved transpression characterized by ductile shear zones. The Middle to Upper Proterozoic is represented by the Bambuí Group which includes slates, metasiltites, phyllites and carbonate rocks. The tectonic structures linked to the São Francisco Basin inversion in the Upper Proterozoic, are represented by N-S oblique thrusts and NE-SW lateral ramps. During the Mesozoic (Upper Cretaceous) the Alto Sanfranciscana Basin was filled by continental sediments of the Urucuia Formation. The lithostratigraphic sequence is composed of the following lithofacies: 1) conglomeratic facies which represents residual paviments of.deflation and in part interdune deposits and wadifans related to an intermittent drainage system; 2) sandstone facies formed by ortoquartzite, arkose and subarkose which constitute wind deposits; 3) and stratified chert facies which represent chemical lacustrine deposits. The basin architecture includes also NNW-SSE listric normal faults and NE-SW transfer faults related to a N5OE extensional axis. During the Tertiary coluvial and aluvial deposits, which underwent lateritization as an immature profile, were formed. The Quaternary is represented by a lacustrine-fluvial sedimentary system. The drainage system is related to the basin of the Manoel Alves and Araguaia rivers, strongly controlled by NE-SW lineaments and associated to pull-apart structures linked to a dextral system.

This study investigates issues of changing recreation use and management in the Greenstone and Caples Valleys. Its underlying research themes are the differing characteristics and activities of four distinct user-groups, how such differences could contribute to conflict in recreation use and management, and the implications of such for management. The conceptual framework used to deal with these issues is the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS), which is based upon the assumption that quality in recreation experiences and management is best achieved through provision of a range of recreation opportunities. This recognises that objective research input into recreation management cannot substitute for the ultimate subjectivity required in decision-making. Management has two roles here. First, to maintain and/or enhance the range of recreation opportunities availible. Second, to provide users with appropriate signals regarding the availibility of opportunities, and the acceptable norms of use and behaviour. Thus user choice of area and activities undertaken within becomes more a consequence of management action. This differs from most recreation management to date, which has tended to be in response to changing conditions (eg'demand-driven'). The absence of an equitable management approach results in selective reduction of opportunities for certain experiences, as evident from research into effects of conflict/crowding perceptions. In contrast, approaches such as the ROS emphasise management for such opportunities. On this basis and from research results, this study found that maintenance of experiences associated with angling and hunting opportunities in the study area, should be the basis for its management. These opportunities were exploited by relatively more experienced participants. For anglers in particular this was reflected by their characteristics of high activity specialisation. Greater experience and specialisation involved more specific resource requirements and norms of appropriate behaviour. Thus opportunities for hunting and angling in the study area were more susceptible to negative impacts from other uses and users. These impacts would be greatest for angling experiences. This would be more a consequence of perceived inappropriate behaviour by less specialised anglers than a consequence of physical crowding. For hunters these impacts would be primarily a result of concern about the increased presence of others on hunting management, rather than their actual presence. Experiences from the tramping and commercial guided walking opportunities availible are also important, but their participants were relatively less experienced and their recreation opportunities less unique in the region. In the context of an equitable regional ROS approach, there is greater flexibility for their provision elsewhere than there is for experiences from hunting and fishing opportunities. For maintenance of a spectrum of opportunities in the regional ROS, these hunting and angling opportunities should be emphasised in management decision-making. Within the study area itself, management for a regional ROS requires that the Greenstone and Caples Valleys be managed differently. It was clear that the Caples was perceived as providing more 'back-country'-type experience opportunities. In the regional ROS context, management should emphasise maintenance of such opportunities there. Along with this should be noted the greater preference for the CapIes by hunters, and for the Greenstone by anglers.

The Late Archean Magmatic Event (LAME), ca. 2.7 Ga, was the greatest crustal addition event in Earth history. My focus is the Superior Province of Canada, where LAME occurred ca. 2.75 – 2.65 Ga. Mantle plumes impinged on the Abitibi subprovince, where ~ 16 km regional thickness of tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) melt was produced. Granites (sensu stricto) were the last magmatic phase of LAME, with a Superior-wide regional thickness of ~ 1 – 3 km. Assuming a crustal source for both TTG and granites, I use 1-D thermal models to investigate the origin of TTG in the Abitibi subprovince and that of late granites in the Superior Province. Melting curves appropriate to the source of TTG and granites are used to determine the thickness of melt produced in the models. I show that the incorporation of upward melt transfer into a standard model of lower crustal melting may increase the amount of predicted melt by ~ 1/(1-f), where f denotes the fraction of melt that is on average being extracted from the source rocks. Partitioning of heat producing elements between melt and restite reduces the amount of melt produced, but the effect is secondary compared to the increase in melt production through upward melt transfer. For the Abitibi subprovince, I show that the emplacement of a single plume coupled with the emplacement of a 12-km-thick greenstone cover can generate a maximum of ~ 9-km-thickness of TTG melt. However, the emplacement of a series of plumes, each coupled with the emplacement of a 3-km-thick greenstone cover and a 10-km-thick sill results in ~ 20-km-thickness of TTG melt. My model incorporates delamination of restitic eclogite. Finally, I show that late granites in the Superior Province may have resulted from thickening of a crust that had been “pre-heated” during earlier arc activity and that prolonged granitic magmatism observed in some areas of the Superior Province may be explained by late underthrusting of fertile source rocks into deeper and hotter regions of the crust.

The Late Archean Magmatic Event (LAME), ca. 2.7 Ga, was the greatest crustal addition event in Earth history. My focus is the Superior Province of Canada, where LAME occurred ca. 2.75 – 2.65 Ga. Mantle plumes impinged on the Abitibi subprovince, where ~ 16 km regional thickness of tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) melt was produced. Granites (sensu stricto) were the last magmatic phase of LAME, with a Superior-wide regional thickness of ~ 1 – 3 km. Assuming a crustal source for both TTG and granites, I use 1-D thermal models to investigate the origin of TTG in the Abitibi subprovince and that of late granites in the Superior Province. Melting curves appropriate to the source of TTG and granites are used to determine the thickness of melt produced in the models. I show that the incorporation of upward melt transfer into a standard model of lower crustal melting may increase the amount of predicted melt by ~ 1/(1-f), where f denotes the fraction of melt that is on average being extracted from the source rocks. Partitioning of heat producing elements between melt and restite reduces the amount of melt produced, but the effect is secondary compared to the increase in melt production through upward melt transfer. For the Abitibi subprovince, I show that the emplacement of a single plume coupled with the emplacement of a 12-km-thick greenstone cover can generate a maximum of ~ 9-km-thickness of TTG melt. However, the emplacement of a series of plumes, each coupled with the emplacement of a 3-km-thick greenstone cover and a 10-km-thick sill results in ~ 20-km-thickness of TTG melt. My model incorporates delamination of restitic eclogite. Finally, I show that late granites in the Superior Province may have resulted from thickening of a crust that had been “pre-heated” during earlier arc activity and that prolonged granitic magmatism observed in some areas of the Superior Province may be explained by late underthrusting of fertile source rocks into deeper and hotter regions of the crust.

科学研究費補助金 研究種目:基盤研究(C)(2) 課題番号:07640638 研究代表者:星野 光雄 研究期間:1995-196年度

A review of Archean granite-greenstone terranes, orogenic gold deposits, the Slave Province and modern exploration tools, techniques and methods was conducted to identify prospective areas in the Yellowknife domain for hosting orogenic gold deposits and illustrate the best exploration methods for delineating this deposit type. This study identifies Archean granite-greenstone terranes as economically important hosts to quartz-carbonate vein-hosted orogenic gold deposits. These deposits occur at convergent plate margins, but can also be related to local extensional tectonics within a convergent setting. Heat generated from tectonic processes can trigger hydrothermal fluid movement along first-order faults and shear zones. Precipitation of gold-bearing quartz-carbonate veins from the hydrothermal fluids occurs in second- and third-order faults and shear zones related to the first-order structures. This study also identifies the Archean Slave Province in northern Canada as a well-endowed craton with numerous orogenic gold deposits, diamondiferous kimberlites, VMS deposits and several other mineralization styles. In particular, three greenstone belts (Yellowknife, Cameron River and Beaulieu River) associated with likely first-order structures are comprised of prospective rocks for hosting orogenic gold and VMS mineralization. The Yellowknife greenstone belt hosts the past-producing and former world-class Con and Giant orogenic gold deposits, but has been little explored with modern exploration techniques. The Cameron River and Beaulieu River greenstone belts host numerous base and precious metal VMS and BIF-hosted orogenic gold prospects and deposits, indicating mineralization is present. There is considerable potential for significant discoveries to be made using modern exploration techniques in the greenstone belts; however, exploration in the region has been hindered over the past decade by ongoing political negotiations. Once the political negotiations are finalized, application of modern exploration methods and techniques in the prospective greenstone belts should be carried out. Regional scale methodologies should be applied to generate targets using predictive modelling, implicit 3D modelling, 3D geochemistry and exploration targeting so decisions defining a businesses strategy for ground acquisition of high priority targets are made using quantitative analysis. Once ground is acquired, field-based exploration for orogenic gold and VMS deposits should include geological mapping with a focus on structural geology, geochemical sampling and airborne magnetic, radiometric and EM geophysical surveys. Prior to reconnaissance drilling, integration of all data layers and interpretation within a common 3D earth model should be conducted. Following successful reconnaissance drilling, definition drilling along strike and down dip of intersected mineralization, combined with borehole geophysics, should be carried out to delineate the extent of mineralization.