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Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Vol. 33 (1985), No. 2. (June), Pages 227-235

The Age of the North Mokka Anticline, Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: an Application of the Paleomagnetic Fold-Test

K.C. Jackson, H.C. Halls

ABSTRACT

A paleomagnetic fold-test of sills in the North Mokka Anticline shows that the deformation both pre- and post-dates the intrusion of diabase. The anticline is one of several in the eastern part of the Sverdrup Basin that are associated with evaporite diapirs. This Late Paleozoic - Early Tertiary sedimentary basin was deformed by the Late Cretaceous to Tertiary Eurekan Orogeny, but the extent to which the orogeny initiated and formed the diapirs has been debated. The paleomagnetic direction obtained from the anticline, 286° + 72°, is the same as that from a nearby Cretaceous lava flow. The corresponding paleopole -- 180°E, 61°N -- is also in agreement with a Cretaceous age of intrusion. These results support the suggestion that the diapirism in the Sverdrup Basin is older than, and independent of, the Eurekan Orogeny. The asymmetric distribution of sills across the anticline may reflect a local stress-environment created by the diapir.

L'AGE DE LA PARTIE NORD DE L'ANTICLINAL MOKKA DE L'ILE AXEL HEIBERG, ARCHIPEL ARTIQUE CANADIEN: APPLICATION DU TEST PALEOMAGNETIQUE SUR DES SILLS

RESUME

Un test paleomagnetique effectue sur des sills de la partie nord de l'anticlinal Mokka montre que la deformation est a la fois anterieure et posterieure a la mise en place des ces sills. L'anticlinal Mokka est un des anticlinaux associes aux diapirs evaporitiques de la partie est du bassin Sverdrup. Ce bassin, d'age paleozoique superieur a tertiaire inferieur, a subi la phase eurekienne du Cretace Superieur-Tertiaire. Cependant, les relations genetiques entre cette phase tectonique et la developpement des diapirs sont encore mal comprises.

La direction paleomagnetique obtenue a partir des sills de diabase (286° + 72°) est la meme que celle par ailleurs obtenue pour une coulee de lave d'age cretace presente a proximite. La valeur du pole paleomagnetique correspondant (180°E, 61°N) est aussi compatible avec un age cretace pour la mise en place de ces diabases. Ces resultats supportent l'hypothese selon laquelle le diapirisme du bassin Sverdrup est plus ancien que la phase eurekienne. La repartition asymmetrique des sills a travers l'anticlinal ne resulterait que de l'existence d'un champ de contrainte local cree par le diapir sous-jacent.


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