Slave craton, Canada

Davies R. M., Griffin W. L., Pearson N. J., Andrew A. S., Doyle B. J., and O Reilly S. Y. (1999) Diamonds from the deep pipe DO-27, Slave Craton, Canada. In The J. B. Dawson Volume Proceedings of the Vllth International Kimberlite Conference (eds. J. J. Gurney, J. L. Gurney, M. D. Pascoe, andS. H. Richardson). Red Roof Designs, Cape Town, vol. 1,... 

Kopylova M. G. and Russell J. K. (2000) Chemical stratification of cratonic lithosphere constraints from the Northern Slave craton, Canada. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 181, 71-87. 

Carbno G. B. and Canil D. (2002) Mantle structure beneath the SW Slave craton, Canada constraints from garnet geochemistry in the Drybones bay kimberlite. 7. Petrol. 43, 129-142. 

Heaman L. M., Creaser R. A., and Cookenboo H. O. (2002) Extreme enrichment of high field strength elements in Jericho eclogite xenoliths a cryptic record of Paleoproterozoic subduction, partial melting, and metasomatism beneath the Slave craton, Canada. Geology 30, 507 -510. 

Sleeker, W., Davis, W. J., Ketchum, J., Sir-combe, K. Stern, R. 2001. Tectonic evolution of the Slave craton, Canada. In Cassidy, K. F., Dunphy, j. M. VAN Kranendonk, M. j. (eds) 4th International Archaean Symposium. 24-28 September 2001, Extended Abstracts, Perth. AGSO-Geoscience Australia, Record, 2001/37, 288-290. 

Cratonic peridotite xenoliths from Lesotho, S. Africa, the Jericho kimberlite, Slave craton, and Somerset Island, Churchill Province, northern Canada, along with selected samples from... 

Kopylova M. G., Russell J. K., and Cookenboo H. (1999) Petrology of peridotite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Jericho kimberlite implications for the thermal state of the mantle beneath the Slave craton, northern Canada. J. Petrol. 40, 79-104. 

Figure 12 Normative garnet Iherzolite mineral abundances (wt.%) versus rock Mg for low-temperature cratonic mantle. Data are open circles, Kaapvaal craton (Boyd and Mertzman, 1987 and references therein) filled diamonds, Tanzanian craton (Lee and Rudnick, 1999) open triangle, Siberian craton (Boyd et al., 1997) cross. Slave craton, northwest Canada (Kopylova and Russell, 2000) filled triangle, northern Canadian craton (Schmidberger and Francis, 1999) and inverted triangle, central Greenland craton (Bernstein et al., 1998).

I wish to thank many of my colleagues at the Geological Survey of Canada for stimulating discussions on Archaean tectonics. My work on the Slave craton has benefited from collaboration with two superb geochronologists, W. Davis (GSC) and J. Ketchum (Royal Ontario Museum). Comments by C. van Staal, W. Hamilton, J. Percival, S. Hanmer, R. Baragar and M. van Kranendonk, and a formal review by M. Bickle, helped to sharpen some of the arguments. This paper is Geological Survey of Canada Contribution 2001235. 

SiRCOMBE, K. N., BLEEKER, W. STERN, R. A. 2001. Detrital zircon geochronology and grain-size analysis of 2800Ma Mesoarchean proto-cratonic cover succession. Slave Province, Canada. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 189, 207-220. 

James D. E., Boyd E. R., Bell D., and Carlson R. (2001) Xenolith constraints on seismic velocities in the upper mantle beneath southern Africa. Abstracts of the Slave-Kaapvaal Workshop A Tale of Two Cratons, Merrickville, Ontario, Canada, 2pp. 

MacKenzie J. M. and Canil D. (1999) Composition and thermal evolution of cratonic mantle beneath the central Archean Slave Province, NWT, Canada. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 134, 313 -324. 

Sleeker, W. 2001. The c.a.2680 Ma Raquette Lake Formation and Correlative Units across the Slave Province, Northwest Territories Evidence for a Craton-scale Overlap Sequence. Geological Survey of Canada Current Research, 2001-C7. 

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