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 References - Western Quebec Seismic Zone
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See below for references on the geology
  • Adams, J. (1989) Crustal stresses in eastern Canada, in Gregersen, S., Basham, P.W., eds., Earthquakes at North Atlantic Passive Margins; Neotectonics and postglacial rebound: Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 289-297.

  • Adams, J.E. and P.W. Basham (1989). The seismicity and seismotectonics of Canada east of the Cordillera, Geoscience Canada. 16, no. 1, 3-16.

  • Adams, J.E. and P.W. Basham (1991). The seismicity and seismotectonics of eastern Canada, in Slemmons, D.B., Engdhal, E.R., Zoback, M.D., and Blackwell, D.D., eds., Neotectonics of North America: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Decade Map Volume 1.

  • Basham, P.W., D.H. Weichert, F.M. Anglin, and M.J. Berry (1982). New probabilistic strong ground motion maps of Canada: a compilation of earthquake source zones, methods and results, Earth Physics Branch Open File 82-33, 205 pp.

  • Bent A.L. (1996) An improved source mechanism for the 1935 Timiskaming, Quebec earthquake from regional waveforms. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 146; 1, 5-20.

  • Bent A.L. (1996). Source parameters of the damaging Cornwall-Massena earthquake of 1944 from regional waveforms. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 86; 2, Pages 489-497.

  • Bent, A. L., M. Lamontagne, and R. J. Wetmiller (1999). Two moderate earthquakes near Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec , Seismological Research Letters, 70, 100-109.

  • Bruneau, M. and Lamontagne, M. "Damage from 20th century earthquakes in eastern Canada and seismic vulnerability of unreinforced masonry buildings". Can. J. of Civil Engineering, 21, no. 4, p. 643-662.

  • Corriveau, L. (1990). Proterozoic subduction and terrane amalgamation in the southwestern Grenville province, Canada: Evidence from ultrapotassic to shoshonitic plutonism, Geology 15, 614--617.

  • Corriveau, L., and V. Jourdain (1992). Terrane characterization in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the southern Grenville orogen, Lac Nominingue map area, Québec, in Current Research, Part. C; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 92-1C, 81-90.

  • Crough, S.T. (1981). Mesozoic hot spot epeirogeny in eastern North America, Geology 9, 2-6.

  • Dimroth, E. (1966). Deformation in the Grenville Province between the Gatineau and Petite Nation rivers, Québec, Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie. 105, 93-109.

  • Forsyth, D.A. (1981). Characteristics of the Western Québec Seismic Zone, Can. J. of Earth Sci. 18, 103--119.

  • Forsyth, D.A., B. Milkereit, C.A. Zelt, D.J. White, R.M. Easton, and D.R. Hutchinson (1993). Deep structure beneath Lake Ontario: crustal scale Grenville subdivisions, Can. J. Earth Sci., in press.

  • Goodacre, A.K., G.F. Bonham-Carter, F.P. Agterberg, and D.F. Wright (1993). A statistical analysis of the spatial association of seismicity with drainage patterns and magnetic anomalies in Western Québec. Tectonophysics 217, 285-305.

  • Hanmer, S., R.H. Thivierge, and J.R. Henderson (1985). Anatomy of a ductile thrust zone: part of the northwest boundary of the Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario (preliminary report); in Current Research, Part B, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 85-1B, 1-5.

  • Hasegawa, H.S. (1983). Lg spectra of local earthquakes recorded by the Eastern Canada Telemetered Network and spectral scaling, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 73, 1041-1061.

  • Horner, R.B., R.J. Wetmiller and H.S. Hasegawa (1979). The St-Donat, Québec, earthquake sequence of February 18-23, 1978, Can. J. Earth Sci. 16, 1892--1898.

  • Horner, R.B., A.E. Stevens, H.S. Hasegawa, and G. Leblanc (1978). Focal parameters of the July 12, 1975, Maniwaki, Québec, earthquake -- An example of intraplate seismicity in eastern Canada, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 68, 619-640.

  • Indares, A., and J. Martignole (1989a). Metamorphic constraints on the evolution of the gneisses from the parautochthonous and allochthonous polycyclic belts, Grenville Province, Western Québec, Can. J. Earth Sci. 27, 357-370.

  • Indares, A. and J. Martignole (1989b). Metamorphic constraints on the tectonic evolution of the allochthonous monocyclic belt of the Grenville Province, Western Québec, Can J. Earth. Sci. 27, 371-386.

  • Kumarapeli, P.S., and V.A. Saull (1966). The St.Lawrence valley system: a North American equivalent of the East African Rift valley system, Can. J. of Earth Sci. 10, 42-53.

  • Lamontagne, M., Hasegawa, H.S., Forsyth, D.A., Buchbinder, G.G.R., and M. Cajka. (1994). The Mont-Laurier, Québec, earthquake of 19 October 1990 and its seismotectonic environment. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 84, no. 5, p. 1505-1522.

  • Leblanc, G. (1981). A closer look at the September 16, 1732, Montreal earthquake, Can. J. Earth Sci. 18, 539-550.

  • Martignole, J. and L. Corriveau (1991). Lithotectonic studies in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the southern Grenville Province: lithology and structure of the Saint Jovite map area, Québec; in Current Research, Part C, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 91-1C, 77-87.

  • Mereu, R.F., D. Wang, O. Kuhn, D.A. Forsyth, A.G. Green, P. Morel, G.G.R. Buchbinder, D. Crossley, E. Schwarz, R. Du Berger, C. Brooks, and R. Clowes (1986). The 1982 COCRUST seismic experiment across the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben and Grenville Front in Ontario and Québec, Geoph. J. Royal Astron. Soc. 84, 491--514.

  • Pierre, J.-R. (1991). Le tremblement de terre du 19 octobre 1990 de Mont-Laurier tel que percu sur le réseau d'Hydro-Québec, Hydro-Québec Internal Report HQ-114-1990.

  • Rivers, T., J. Martignole, C.F. Gower, and A. Davidson (1989). A new tectonic division of the Grenville Province, southeast Canadian Shield, Tectonics. 8, 63-4.

  • Sbar, M.L., and L.R. Sykes (1973). Contemporary compressive stress and seismicity in eastern North America: an example of intra-plate tectonics, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 84, 1861-1882.

  • Schlesinger-Miller, E., N.L. Barstow, and A.L. Kafka (1983). The July 1981 earthquake sequence near Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, Earthquake Notes 54, no. 4, 11-26.

  • Sharma, K.N.M., M. Hocq, J. Levesque and M. Rive (1993). Excursion des amis du Grenville au Québec, Observations structurales et importance économique, Ministère de l'Energie et des Ressources, Service géologique du Québec, Manuscrit Brut MB-93-50, 48 p., 1 map.

  • Sleep, N.H. (1990). Monteregian hotspot track: a long-lived mantle plume, J. Geophys. Res. 95., 21,983-21,990.

  • Stevens, A., (1991). Damage associated with three early Eastern North American earthquakes, 6e Conférence Canadienne de génie parasismique, Toronto.

  • Wahlstrom, R. (1987a). Focal mechanisms of earthquakes in Southern Québec, Southeastern Ontario, and Northeastern New York, with implications for regional seismotectonics and stress field characteristics, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 77, 891-924.

  • Wahlstrom, R. (1987b). The North Gower, Ontario, earthquake of 11 October, 1983: Focal mechanism and aftershocks, Seismol. Research Letters 58, 65-72.

  • White, D.J., R.M. Easton, N.G. Culshaw, B. Milkereit, D.A. Forsyth, S. Carr, A.G. Green, and A. Davidson (1993). Seismic images of the Grenville Orogen in Ontario, Can J. Earth Sci., In press.

  • Wynne-Edwards, H.R. (1972). The Grenville Province, in R.A. Price and R.J.W. Douglas eds., Variations in tectonic styles in Canada: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 11, 163-182.

  • Zoback,. M.D., and M.L. Zoback (1991). Tectonic stress field of North America and relative plate motions, in D.B. Slemmons, E.R. Enghdahl, M.D. Zoback, and D.D. Blackwell, eds, Neotectonics of North America: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Decade Map Volume 1.

Some articles on the geology of the seismic Zone of the West of Quebec.


  • Amelin Y, Corriveau L., Morin D. 1994. Constraints on the evolution of grenvillian lithosphere from Nd-Sr-Pb cpx and garnet and U-Pb zircon study of pyroxenitic and mafic granulitic xenoliths. USGS Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 5.

  • Andrews, O. 1997. Apatite in the Kensington and Sainte-Véronique plutons, near Mont-Laurier, Québec: an indicator of magmatic and hydrothermal processes. Mémoire de maitrise, Université McGill, 92p.

  • Boggs, K. 1996. Retrograde cation exchange in garnets during slow cooling of mid crustal granulites and the P-T-t trajectories from the Mont-Laurier region, Grenville Province, Québec. Mémoire de maitrise, U.Q.A.C., 333 p.

  • Boggs K.J.E., van Breemen O., Corriveau L., Sawyer E.W. 1994. New insights on metamorphism in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of Québec, Grenville Province. Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 58A, p. 105-106.

  • Corriveau L. 1989. Potassic Alkaline Plutonism in the southwestern Grenville Province. Thèse de doctorat, Université McGill, 263 p.

  • Corriveau L. 1990. Proterozoic subduction and terrane in the southwestern Grenville province, Canada: evidence from ultrapotassic to shoshonitic plutonism; Geology, Vol. 15, p. 614-617.

  • Corriveau L. 1991. Lithotectonic studies in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the southwestern Grenville Province: plutonic assemblages as indicators of tectonic setting. Commission géologique du Canada, Étude 91-1C p. 89-98.

  • Corriveau L., Amelin Y. 1994. Sources of Proterozoic K-rich alkaline and shoshonitic magmatism in the SW Grenville Province, Québec: Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic study. USGS Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 68.

  • Corriveau L., Gorton M.P. 1993. Coexisting K-rich alkaline and shoshonitic magmatism of arc affinities in the Proterozoic: A reassessment of syenitic rocks in the southwestern Grenville Province; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 113, p. 262-279.

  • Corriveau L., Jourdain V. 1992. Terrane characterization in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the southern Grenville orogen: the Lac Nominingue map area. Commission géologique du Canada, Étude 92-1C, p. 81-90.<

  • Corriveau L., Jourdain V. 1993. Géologie de la région de Lac Nominingue, Québec (SNRC 31J/6). Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 2641, 1 carte annotée.

  • Corriveau L., Leblanc D. 1995. Sequential nesting of magmas in marble, SW Grenville province: from fracture propagation to diapirism; Tectonophysics, Vol. 246, p. 183-200.

  • Corriveau L., Madore L. 1994. Géologie de la région de Duhamel, Québec (SNRC 31J/3). Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 2918, 1 carte annotée.

  • Corriveau L., Morin, D.:Modeling 3D architecture of western Grenville from xenoliths, styles of magma emplacement and Lithoprobe reflectors. Soumis pour le volume spécial du transect Abitibi-Grenville du Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

  • Corriveau, L., Rivard, B. 1997. From source to surface: the extraction, transport and emplacement of magma in a Grenvillian perspective / De la source à la surface: l'extraction, le transport et la mise en place des magmas dans une perspective grenvillienne. Guide d'excursion B4, Association géologique du Canada, 82p.

  • Corriveau L., Sharma K. 1991. Lithotectonic studies in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the southwestern Grenville Province. Projet LITHOPROBE Abitibi-Grenville, Rapport d'atelier III, p. 54.

  • Corriveau, L., van Breemen, O.: Polyphased record of Grenvillian orogenesis in the Central Metasedimentary Belt, Québec; the role of intrusive suites in unravelling strongly partitioned tectono-metamorphic events. Soumis pour le volume spécial du transect Abitibi-Grenville du Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

  • Corriveau L., Gold D., Bédard J., Bourne J. 1989. Alkaline and calc-alkaline complexes of southern Québec. Livret-guide B3, Association géologique du Canada/Association minéralogique du Canada, 129p.

  • Corriveau L., Heaman L.M., Marcantonio F., van Breemen O.1990. 1.1 Ga K-rich alkaline plutonism in the southwestern Grenville Province - U-Pb constraints for the timing of subduction-related magmatism; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 105, p. 473-485.

  • Corriveau L., Morin D., Boggs K. 1993. Cibles d'exploration dans la Ceinture métasédimentaire, province de Grenville, région de Mont-Laurier, Québec (SNRC 31J/2, 3 et 6). Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 2617, 10 p.

  • Corriveau, L. Morin, D., Madore, L. 1994. Géologie et cibles d'exploration de la partie centre-est de la Ceinture métasédimentaire du Québec, Province de Grenville. Commission géologique du Canada, Étude 94-1C, p. 355-365.

  • Corriveau, L., Morin, D., van Breemen, O., Rivard, B., Tremblay, P., Boggs, K., Deschênes G. 1995. Magmatisme et hydrothermalisme dans la Ceinture métasédimentaire du Québec; implications tectoniques et métallogéniques. Guide d'excursion, Amis du Grenville, 28p.

  • Corriveau L., Morin D., Tellier M., Amelin Y., van Breemen O. 1996. Insigths on minette emplacement and the lithosphere underlying southwest Grenville Province of Québec at 1.08Ga; dans Searching for diamonds in Canada, édité par A.N. LeCheminant, D.G. Richardson, R.N.W. Dilabio, K.A. Richardson, Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 3228, p. 139-142.

  • Corriveau L., Morin D., Tellier M., Amelin Y., van Breemen O. 1996. Le dyke de minette de Rivard et ses xénolites, témoins de la lithosphère sous-jacente à la province de Grenville à 1.08 Ga et des mécanismes de mise en place des minettes; dans La recherche de diamants au Canada, édité par A.N. LeCheminant, D.G. Richardson, R.N.W. Dilabio et K.A. Richardson, Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 3228, p. 141-144.

  • Corriveau L., Tellier M.L., Morin, D. 1996. Le dyke de minette de Rivard et le complexe gneissique cuprifère de Bondy; implications tectoniques et métallogéniques pour la région de Mont-Laurier, Québec. Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 3078, 70 p.

  • Corriveau L., Morin D., van Breemen O., Amelin Y., Rivard, B., Sharma, K.N.M. 1996. New light on the Central Metasedimentary Belt of Québec and its lithosphere. Projet LITHOPROBE Abitibi-Grenville, Rapport 49, p. 23-27.

  • Corriveau, L., Blein, O., Laflèche, M.R. 1997. The Bondy gneiss complex and its cupriferous hydrothermal system, Mont-Laurier area, Québec. Ministère des Ressources naturelles du Québec, GM 54804, 114 p.

  • Corriveau, L., Blein, O., LaFlèche, M., Wodicka, N., Harris, L., Rivard, B. 1998. Cu-Au-iron oxide hydrothermalism in the Bondy Gneiss Complex of the Grenville Province- implications of its lithogeochemistry, metallogeny, paleo-setting and age in developing exploration strategy for the Rivard-Montigny properties. Ministère des Ressources naturelles du Québec, GM XX, 266p.

  • Corriveau, L., Rivard, B., van Breemen, O. 1998. Rheological controls on Grenvillian intrusive suites: implications for tectonic analysis; Journal of Structural Geology, 20.

  • Couture, G. 1996. Hydrogéochimie deaux souterraines dans la ceinture métasédimentaire centrale de la province géologique de Grenville, Québec. Mémoire de maitrise, INRS-Géoressources - Université Laval, 105p.

  • Harris, L., Rivard, B., Corriveau, L.: Extensional collapse of Elzevirian orogen. Soumis au Geological Society of America Bulletin.

  • Harris, L., Rivard, B., Corriveau, L.: Structure of the Lac Nominingue-Chénéville zone in the Mont-Laurier region, Central Metasedimentary Belt, Québec Grenville Province. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, accepté avec révisions.

  • Hetu R., Corriveau, L. 1993. Airborne geophysical survey - levé géophysique aéroporté, Bouchette, Québec, NTS/SNRC 31J/4. Commission géologique du Canada, Séries géophysiques 36031(04)G.

  • Hetu R.J., Corriveau L. 1995. Levé géophysique aéoporté, Papineau, Québec. Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 2872.

  • Martignole J., Corriveau L. 1991. Lithotectonic studies in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the southern Grenville Province: lithology and structure of the Saint-Jovite map area, Québec. Commission géologique du Canada, Étude 91-1C, 77-87.

  • Martignole J., Corriveau L. 1993. Géologie de la région de Saint-Jovite, Québec (SNRC 31J/2). Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 2640, 1 carte annotée.

  • Morin, D., Corriveau, L., and Hébert, R. 1998. Magmatic suites underplating the western Grenville: a xenolith record from a 1.07 Ga minette dyke. Soumis au Journal of Petrology.

  • Morin, D. 1998. La brèche intrusive de Rivard - mise en place, nature et origine d'un lamprophyre ultrapotassique grenvillien et de ses xénolites ultramafiques, region de Mont-Laurier, Quebec. Thèse de doctorat, INRS-Géoressources - Université Laval, 538 p.

  • Morin D., Corriveau L. 1996. Fragmentation processes and xenolith transport in a Proterozoic minette dyke, Grenville Province, Québec; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 125, p. 319-331.

  • Rivard, B., Corriveau, L., Harris, L.: Structural reconnaissance of a deep crustal orogen using satellite imagery and airborne geophysics; Association géologique du Canada, volume r RADARSAT, en révision.

  • St.-Germain, P. 1998. Comparaison des processus de fragmentation dans un pipe bréchique et dans un dyke. Essais de baccalauréat. UQAM.

  • Tremblay P., Corriveau L., Daigneault R.A. 1993. Géologie de la Réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle - rallyes géologiques. INRS-géoressources, 1 carte annotée, rallyes et photos.

  • Tremblay P., Corriveau L., Daigneault R.A. 1996. Si la Terre m'était contée - Géologie de la Réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle. Brochure de vulgarisation scientifique; INRS-géoressources, 64 p.

  • Tremblay, L., Corriveau, L., Daigneault, R.-A. 1997. Un aperçu du Bouclier canadien dans la région de la réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle, Québec, à l'intention des enseignants / An Introduction for Teachers to the Canadian Shield in the Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve, Quebec. Guide d'excursion A3, Association géologique du Canada/Association minéralogique du Canada, 29p.


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