- journal_title：Geosphere
- Contributor：William H. Peck
- Publisher：Geological Society of America
- Date：2012-12-01
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.1130/GES00828.1
- journal_abbrev：Geosphere
- issn：1553-040X
- volume：8
- issue：6
- firstpage：1356
- section：NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GRENVILLE GEOLOGY: IN HONOR OF JAMES MCLELLAND THEMED ISSUE
The Mont-Tremblant gneiss is a granulite-facies quartzofeldspathic orthogneiss unit in Morin terrane of the southwestern Grenville Province. These gneisses are the oldest rocks in the Morin terrane and country rocks to intrusions of the 1.15 Ga anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite (AMCG) suite. The Mont-Tremblant gneiss may also be basement to the Grenville Supergroup, but until now it has not been directly dated. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe–reverse geometry (SHRIMP-RG) geochronology of zircon from two penetratively deformed samples of Mont-Tremblant gneiss yields igneous ages of 1324 ± 38 Ma and 1333 ± 32 Ma (2σ), and one sample shows metamorphic zircon growth during the Shawinigan orogeny at 1159.4 ± 15.6 Ma. Geochemically, Mont-Tremblant gneiss samples are calc-alkaline, granitic, and show hallmarks of an evolved arc environment. These characteristics are consistent with the Mont-Tremblant gneiss being correlative with the Geon 14 Lacoste and Bondy suites in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of Québec to the west, but contrast with the more juvenile tonalitic Geon 14 calc-alkaline suites in the Adirondack Highlands and other Grenville outliers in the Appalachian Mountains. This transition may reflect differences in the lithosphere along strike of the Laurentian margin during Geon 14 subduction.