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The Sudbury Igneous Complex is a 1,844 million year-old impact melt sheet in Greater Sudbury, Northern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Sudbury Basin impact structure, and is classified as a lopolith.

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Sudbury Igneous Complex

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The Sudbury Igneous Complex is a 1,844 million year-old impact melt sheet in Greater Sudbury, Northern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Sudbury Basin...

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Sudbury Basin

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The main units characterizing the Sudbury Structure can be subdivided into three groups: the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), the Whitewater Group, and footwall...

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Creighton Mine

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Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Open pit mining began in 1901, and underground mining began in 1906. The mine is situated in the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC)...

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Lopolith

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gabbro, the Sudbury igneous complex of Ontario, the Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa, the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe, the Skaergaard complex of Greenland...

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Bushveld Igneous Complex

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The Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is the largest layered igneous intrusion within the Earth's crust. It has been tilted and eroded forming the outcrops...

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Great Lakes tectonic zone

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continental margin deposits.: 1890  The structure consists of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, a differentiated sequence of intrusive volcanic rocks – norite...

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Greater Sudbury

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Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian...

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Norite

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igneous complex in Montana. Norite is also the basal igneous rock of the Sudbury Basin complex in Ontario, which is the site of a comet impact and the...

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Geology of Ontario

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the 150 km (93 mi) Chicxulub crater under Yucatán, Mexico. The Sudbury Igneous Complex is an impact melt that formed from this impact and the high pressures...

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Ore resources on Mars

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the Sudbury Igneous Complex in Canada. For a number of years, these ores from the Sudbury area had a value of $2 billion each year. The Sudbury formation...

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Mantle plume

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events such as ones that created the Addams crater on Venus and the Sudbury Igneous Complex in Canada are known to have caused melting and volcanism. In the...

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Michael Lesher

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PC, Pattison EF, Golightly JP, 2022, Genesis of Sublayer in the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada, Economic Geology, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4948...

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Platinum group

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and ultramafic igneous rocks host practically all primary PGM ore of the world. Mafic layered intrusions, including the Bushveld Complex, outweigh by far...

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Intraplate volcanism

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events such as ones that created the Addams crater on Venus and the Sudbury Igneous Complex in Canada are known to have caused melting and volcanism. In the...

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Pentlandite

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the best examples being the Bushveld igneous complex, South Africa, the Voisey's Bay troctolite intrusive complex in Canada, the Duluth gabbro, in North...

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Palladium

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the Bushveld Igneous Complex covering the Transvaal Basin in South Africa; the Stillwater Complex in Montana, United States; the Sudbury Basin and Thunder...

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Canadian Shield

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Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or...

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Sperrylite

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of Sudbury Basin in Ontario, Canada. It also occurs in the layered igneous complex of the Bushveld region of South Africa and the Oktyabr'skoye copper-nickel...

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Biotite

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variety of igneous and metamorphic rocks. For instance, biotite occurs in the lava of Mount Vesuvius and in the Monzoni intrusive complex of the western...

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Layered intrusion

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A layered intrusion is a large sill-like body of igneous rock which exhibits vertical layering or differences in composition and texture. These intrusions...

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Iridium

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structures. The largest known primary reserves are in the Bushveld igneous complex in South Africa, (near the largest known impact structure, the Vredefort...

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Ore

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element: Ni-Cu, found in komatiites, anorthosite complexes, and flood basalts. This also includes the Sudbury Nickel Basin, the only known astrobleme source...

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Geography of Canada

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towns extracting these minerals. The largest, and best known, is Sudbury, Ontario. Sudbury is an exception to the normal process of forming minerals in the...

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Animikie Group

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Greenstone layer. Ely Greenstone consists of igneous rocks which were metamorphosed by the gabbro of the Duluth Complex.: 169  The Ely Greenstone is a belt consisting...

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Dike swarm

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intrusive event, are magmatic and stratigraphic, and may form a large igneous province. The occurrence of mafic dike swarms in Archean and Paleoproterozoic...

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Platinum

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Hans Merensky discovered a large supply of platinum in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa. The specific layer he found, named the Merensky Reef...

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Osmium

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are in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, though the large copper–nickel deposits near Norilsk in Russia, and the Sudbury Basin in Canada are...

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Timeline of natural history

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and Birksgate Complex solidify c. 1,076 Ma – Musgrave Orogeny: Warakurna large igneous province develops – intrusion of Giles Complex and Winburn Suite...

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