The capital of the world’s nickel,Sudbury in north Ontario,is named for the Sudbury Structure.The Sudbury Structure and its associated Cu-Ni sulphide deposits is a significant geological record on the earth. Detailed study of the Sudbury Structure has suggested that the Sudbury Structure is a violent structure,widely regarded as meteoritic shocking structure.The footwall rock of the structure is Precambrian metamorphic rocks which has subjected shock metamorphism and formed Sudbury Breccia partly.The Sudbury Igneous Complex(SIC)is a controversial igneous rocks,compositionally from quartz norite to granophyre and quartz diorite-offset dikes,for its special composition and geological occurrence.The hang-wall rock,Whitewater Group,is more complex and interpreted as an ignimbrite or the fallback breccia from the impact of a meteorite.Coincidentally,the Sudbury Structure is located on the east-tending Elliot Lake-Englehart positive gravity anomaly and at the“Junction”of three structure provinces,and also loeated on a big Cu-Ni metallic mineralization zone...
It is a milestone in Sudbury Structure research that the monograpgy,The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Sudbury Structure,was published by Ontario Geological Survey(OGS)in 1984.This year there will be a international symposium on the Sudbury Structure in Laurentian University.This paper is an introduction of Sudbury Structure to people who are not familiar with it.