Tectonic and metamorphic events in the westernmost Grenville Province, central Ontario: new results from high-precision U–Pb zircon geochronology

The U–Pb isotopic ages of metamorphic zircons from deformed amphibolitized metadiabase dykes and associated unstrained anatectic pegmatites have been determined to constrain the times of postdyke ductile flow related recrystallization and deformation. Samples from the Central Gneiss Belt of the Grenville Province in the southern Georgian Bay region provide a means of linking areas formed during common episodes of ductile flow. Three zircon fractions from one attenuated dyke in the Moon River domain gave identical concordant ages of 1062, 1065, and 1064 ± 2 Ma, while those from another gave identical concordant ages of 1052, 1051, and 1050 ± 2 Ma for the time of metamorphism. Zircons from a folded dyke from the Go Home domain gave identical concordant ages of 1049, 1047, and 1046 ± 2 Ma, while a single overgrowth fragment from an unstrained anatectic pegmatite in the fold hinge gave a concordant age of 1047 ± 2 Ma, as if folding, metamorphic zircon growth and postfolding pegmatite are part of the same proc...