Petrology, age, and tectonic setting of the Seal Island Pluton, offshore southwestern Nova Scotia.

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

Abstract: The Seal Island Pluton outcrops only on small islands located on the continental shelf 45 km south of Nova Scotia, although geophysical data indicate that the pluton is part of large granitoid units that cover thousands of square kilometres farther offshore. Based on the island outcrops, the Seal Island Pluton consists of biotite monzogranite and muscovite-biotite monzogranite of uncertain relative age. Metasedimentary xenoliths combined with characteristic magnetic patterns indicate that the pluton intruded the Cambrian-Ordovician Meguma Group. Compared with the ...

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