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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth Année : 2016

Three billion years of crustal evolution in eastern Canada: Constraints from receiver functions

L. Petrescu
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I. D. Bastow
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F. A. Darbyshire
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A. Gilligan
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W. Menke
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V. Levin
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The geological record of SE Canada spans more than 2.5Ga, making it a natural laboratory for the study of crustal formation and evolution over time. We estimate the crustal thickness, Poisson's ratio, a proxy for bulk crustal composition, and shear velocity (V-s) structure from receiver functions at a network of seismograph stations recently deployed across the Archean Superior Craton, the Proterozoic Grenville, and the Phanerozoic Appalachian provinces. The bulk seismic crustal properties and shear velocity structure reveal a correlation with tectonic provinces of different ages: the post-Archean crust becomes thicker, faster, more heterogeneous, and more compositionally evolved. This secular variation pattern is consistent with a growing consensus that crustal growth efficiency increased at the end of the Archean. A lack of correlation among elevation, Moho topography, and gravity anomalies within the Proterozoic belt is better explained by buoyant mantle support rather than by compositional variations driven by lower crustal metamorphic reactions. A ubiquitous approximate to 20km thick high-V-s lower crustal layer is imaged beneath the Proterozoic belt. The strong discontinuity at 20km may represent the signature of extensional collapse of an orogenic plateau, accommodated by lateral crustal flow. Wide anorthosite massifs inferred to fractionate from a mafic mantle source are abundant in Proterozoic geology and are underlain by high-V-s lower crust and a gradational Moho. Mafic underplating may have provided a source for these intrusions and could have been an important post-Archean process stimulating mafic crustal growth in a vertical sense.
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L. Petrescu, I. D. Bastow, F. A. Darbyshire, A. Gilligan, Thomas Bodin, et al.. Three billion years of crustal evolution in eastern Canada: Constraints from receiver functions. Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 2016, 121 (2), pp.788-811. ⟨10.1002/2015JB012348⟩. ⟨hal-02331134⟩
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