Structural history and granite emplacement in the Rottenstone Domain during closure of the Trans-Hudson Orogen, Davin Lake, northern Saskatchewan

The Rottenstone Domain at Davin Lake northern Saskatchewan, exhibits structural and granite-emplacement evidence for crustal thickening, and possible Himalayan-style extrusion, overprinted by transpressional strain increasing toward the contact with the Wathaman Batholith. Three discrete Rottenstone subdomains parallel the regional strike of the Trans-Hudson Orogen: (i) the southeast Rottenstone subdomain (SERSD) with gently northwest-dipping migmatitic straight gneiss (S1) and white granitoid rocks with pinch-and-swell structures parallel to the straight gneissosity; (ii) the central Rottenstone subdomain (CRSD), which partly preserves the same NW-dipping fabric (S1) but is overprinted at its margins by tight upright F2 folds and includes a stockwork of pink monzogranitic aplites and pegmatites; and (iii) the northwest Rottenstone subdomain (NWRSD) in which the F2 folds are generally tighter and penetrative and its network of narrow white granitoid rocks is deformed and transposed by the F2 folds; but in...