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Tholeiitic basalt lapillistone in the Precambrian of Ontario, Canada.

These rocks are part of the Late Archean-aged Kidd-Munro Assemblage, which consists of ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks intruded by mafic to ultramafic dikes and sill-like bodies. Minor felsic volcanic rocks are also present. Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits occur in the Kidd-Munro Assemblage - they have been mined at the Texas Gulf Mine and the Potter Mine.

This outcrop consists of relatively fine-grained volcaniclastic material (= hyaloclastite/basaltic lapillistone) adjacent to an igneous dike with peperite. The clasts in the volcaniclastics formed as lava emerged from a seafloor into a water column. The lava got disrupted into abundant, irregularly-shaped fragments.

Stratigraphy: Middle Tholeiitic Unit, Kidd-Munro Assemblage, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, lower Neoarchean, 2.711-2.719 Ga

Locality: outcrop next to a little dirt road that is just southwest of the Potter Mine, north of Route 101, east-northeast of Matheson & south of the western end of Lake Abitibi & ~83 kilometers east of the city of Timmins, Munro Township, southern Cochrane District, eastern Ontario, southeastern Canada (vicinity of 48° 35' 53.18" North latitude, 80° 12' 46.05" West longitude) (= stop 2.2D2 of Houlé et al., 2010 - Stratigraphy and physical volcanology of komatiites and associated Ni-Cu-(PGE) mineralization in the western Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Timmins area, Ontario: a field trip for the 11th International Platinum Symposium. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6255, p. 34 (figure 16) & p. 39.)
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