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MDI31C03SE00035
| Record Name(s) | Kimberlite - 1993, Picton dike - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1993-May-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Kimberlite
Township or Area: Sophiasburgh
Latitude: 44° 3' 3.79" Longitude: -77° 8' 3.61"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 329027 Northing: 4879758 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03SE
Point Location Description: Precise - from visit with GPS
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Located in Picton Quarry, 4 km northeast of Picton on the west shore of Picton Bay.
Discovered by D. G. Winder in the south end of the Picton cement quarry.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| OP92-074 | 32D04NW0363 | 32D04NW0363 |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Appalachian Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Kimberlite-Unsubdivided | 1 | Serpentinized Ultramafic | Dike | Is |
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Aug 08, 2023 (Mateo Dorado-Troughton) - The emplacement of the Picton ultramafic dike may be related to Grenville-age basement faults reactivated in Jurassic time (Barnett et al., 1984).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Kimberlite |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Fault |
Date: May 01, 2017
Geologist: P LeBaron
Notes: Tour of limestone quarry at the Lehigh Cement plant and quarry operations, Picton. Sampled and photographed a 70cm-wide kimberlite dike exposed in the north and south quarry walls (strike 080, dip 75 south).
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: North quarry was visited by the SO DG and RG in conjunction with K. Hahn, OGS Paleozoic Geologist and summer student. A Jurassic-aged kimberlite dike was viewed and photographed in the SW quarry wall. Quarry visit was in conjunction with K. Hahn's region bedrock geology mapping of the area.
Journal - The Picton and Varty Lake ultramafic dikes: Jurassic magmatism in the St. Lawrence Platform near Belleville, Ontario; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (1984) vol. 21, no. 12
Publication Number: CJES V21 Page: 1460-72 Date: 1984
Author: Barnett, R.L., Arima, M., Blackwell, J.D., Winder, C.G., Palmer, H.C., Hayatsu, A.
Publisher Name: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Location: https://doi.org/10.1139/e84-151
Journal - Jurassic kimberlites from Picton and Varty Lake, Ontario: Geochemical and stable isotopic characteristics; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 99, no. 3
Publication Number: CMP V99 Page: 385-391 Date: 1988
Author: Arima, M.
Publisher Name: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Location: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227249301_Jurassic_kimberlites_from_Picton_and_Varty_Lake_Ontario_Geochemical_and_stable_isotopic_characteristics
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 110-111 Date: 1998
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Location:
File - Resident Geologist 1986, Field report
Publication Number: Date: 1986
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Location: SO RGP deposit files
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