Issue |
BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull.
Volume 192, 2021
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Article Number | 32 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2021021 | |
Published online | 11 June 2021 |
The Rosebel gold mining district (Trans-Amazonian belt, Suriname), a new structural framework
Le district aurifère de Rosebel (ceinture trans-amazonienne, Suriname), un nouveau modèle structural
1
Géosciences Rennes, UMR CNRS 6118, Université de Rennes 1,
35042
Rennes cedex, France
2
IAMGOLD,
Heerenstraat 8, P.O. Box 2973,
Paramaribo, Suriname
3
Kinross Gold Corporation, Tasiast Mauritania Ltd SA, ZRA 741,
P.O. Box 5051,
Nouakchott, Mauritania
* Corresponding author: denis.gapais@univ-rennes1.fr
Received:
14
September
2020
Accepted:
18
May
2021
The Rosebel gold district belongs to the Paleoproterozoic Trans-Amazonian belt associated with sub-meridian crustal shortening. Here, we present new structural observations (cleavage, stretching lineations, veins, fault slip data, aeromagnetic map). The regional cleavage is steeply dipping and bears a steeply plunging stretching lineation. Finite strains are of flattening type. Fault slip data reveal a complex deformation history. The overall strain pattern in the area reflects vertical motions, a feature consistent with pop-down tectonics involving vertical stretch and burial of supracrustal deposits during horizontal shortening of a hot and weak continental lithosphere.
Résumé
Le district aurifère de Rosebel appartient à la ceinture tectonique paléoprotérozoïque de Trans-Amazonie régionalement associée à un raccourcissement crustal sub-méridien. Dans cet article, nous présentons de nouvelles données structurales et géophysiques sur le district (foliations, linéations, déformation finie, analyses des failles, carte aéromagnétique). La schistosité régionale a un fort pendage et porte une linéation d’étirement fortement plongeante. La déformation finie est de type aplatissement. Le champ de failles révèle une histoire de déformation progressive complexe, mais l’ensemble des données souligne une tectonique transpressive avec un raccourcissement sub-méridien et un étirement vertical de la croûte. Le champ de déformation reflète un enfouissement des dépôts supra-crustaux syn-tectoniques lors de la déformation compressive d’une lithosphère continentale chaude.
Key words: Paleoproterozoic tectonics / Trans-Amazonian belt / Suriname / Rosebel gold district
Mots clés : Tectonique paléoprotérozoïque / ceinture trans-amazonienne / Suriname / district aurifère de Rosebel
© D. Gapais et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2021
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