Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield

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The Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield is a vast, ancient geological region in eastern North America composed of deeply metamorphosed and deformed rocks that record the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia.

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Label Occurrences
Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geological province ⓘ
tectonic province ⓘ
ageRangeMa 1300–980 Ma ⓘ
borders Nain Province of the Canadian Shield ⓘ
Superior Province of the Canadian Shield ⓘ
linked to: Superior Province
characterizedBy deep metamorphism ⓘ
intense deformation ⓘ
contains Adirondack Highlands ⓘ
Adirondack Lowlands ⓘ
Central Metasedimentary Belt ⓘ
Labrador segment ⓘ
Ottawa River segment ⓘ
Parry Sound domain ⓘ
country Canada ⓘ
economicGeology hosts iron deposits ⓘ
hosts rare‑earth‑element deposits ⓘ
hosts titanium deposits ⓘ
extendsAcross Appalachian subsurface ⓘ
Labrador ⓘ
New York State ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ
Quebec ⓘ
linked to: Quebec, Canada
extendsInto United States ⓘ
formedDuring Grenville orogeny ⓘ
forms southeastern margin of the Canadian Shield ⓘ
geologicalAge Mesoproterozoic ⓘ
Neoproterozoic ⓘ
linked to: Neoproterozoic Era
lithology polydeformed crystalline basement ⓘ
locatedIn eastern North America ⓘ
metamorphicGrade amphibolite to granulite facies ⓘ
namedAfter Grenville orogeny ⓘ
orogenicStyle continent–continent collision ⓘ
partOf Canadian Shield ⓘ
recordsEvent assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia ⓘ
researchUse key area for studying Proterozoic tectonics ⓘ
natural laboratory for collisional orogens ⓘ
rockType gneiss ⓘ
granite ⓘ
granulite ⓘ
high‑grade metamorphic rocks ⓘ
migmatite ⓘ
significance records late Precambrian continental assembly processes ⓘ
structuralFeature fold belts ⓘ
large‑scale thrust sheets ⓘ
shear zones ⓘ
tectonicHistory accretion of arcs and microcontinents ⓘ
long‑lived convergent margin ⓘ
tectonicSetting collisional orogen ⓘ
underlies parts of the Appalachian orogen ⓘ

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Grenville orogeny → preservedIn → Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield ⓘ