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April, 2013
by Igor Kryvoshlyk
Glaciers will change their direction multiple times making mineral anomalies mostly at the points where glacier interacted with depressions or elevations of surface
NOTES: 1.There were six glacier periods in the history of Canadian kimberlites (L. Sankeralli, 1997). 2. How many times a buried kimberlite could be sampled by a latest glaciers? 3. How could clasts of a buried kimberlite be exposed at surface?
Schematic cross-section view of clastic dispersal patterns around a kimberlite in glaciated terrain.
(Copy of a Fig. 4.B from: McClenaghan, M.B., and Kjarsgaard, B.A., 2007)
Till as well as a host rocks has a stratified structure when oldest sediments are located at the lowest level, and the youngest at the top of deposit
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Youngest
Oldest
till
till
till
Youngest?
Youngest
Oldest?
Oldest
NOTES: 1. Youngest clasts of a buried kimberlite can not make an anomaly within an oldest till deposits as well as an oldest clasts of a kimberlite can not occur within a youngest till deposits. 5 2. How could clasts of a buried kimberlite climb up to the surface (red arrow)?
Each kimberlite pipe might be eroded by glaciers for several times and a kimberlite material could create several mineralogicaly similar anomalies
Youngest
till
Oldest
till
Youngest
YK
OK
Oldest
EXPLANATION: First kimberlite clasts could be moved by a glacier (along the brown arrow) and create an oldest kimberlite clasts deposit [OK]. Next glacier could move kimberlite clasts by the roof of frozen oldest till along the yellow arrow and create a youngest mineral deposit [YK]. Also, [OK] could be moved by a latest glacier and create an anomaly of a re-deposited kimberlite material.
REFERENCES
1. McClenaghan, M.B., and Kjarsgaard, B.A., 2007, Indicator mineral and
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