Temagami Magnetic Anomaly

The Temagami Magnetic Anomaly, also called the Temagami Anomaly or the Wanapitei Anomaly, is a magnetic anomaly resulting from a large buried geologic structure in the Canadian Shield in the Temagami region of northeastern Ontario, Canada. It stretches from Lake Wanapitei in the west to Bear Island in Lake Temagami.

Landsat image showing the Anomaly, cross is at the centre of it. Shows the terrain only, not the magnetic deviations of the area.

The Aboriginal community of Teme-Augama Anishnabai lies partly within the Temagami Magnetic Anomaly, including the Temagami First Nation on Bear Island which is a portion of the Aboriginal community. Located nearby are a number of other geological structures including the Sudbury Basin, the Lake Wanapitei impact crater, and the Temagami Greenstone Belt, although none of the structures are directly related to each other in the sense of resulting from the same geophysical processes.

Discovery and structure
The Anomaly on a map, the larger pink spot near the center of the image.

The Temagami Magnetic Anomaly is egg-shaped, 58 km (36 mi) long and 19 km (12 mi) wide. The central section has the greatest amplitude and an east-west strike.

The western portion appears smoother in character while the eastern section is long and narrow. With an areal extent of 50 x 15 km, the Temagami Magnetic Anomaly reaches a magnitude of approximately 10,000 nanoteslas making it one of the largest positive anomalies in North America.[1] The eastern section of the magnetic anomaly coincides with a small positive gravity anomaly, indicating the presence of dense rocks at depth.[2] The anomaly was discovered by a magnetic survey and a gravity survey.

The Temagami Magnetic Anomaly has striking similarities to the nearby Sudbury Basin, which is one of the richest mining areas in the world. Its magnetic anomalies are very similar to the Sudbury Basin and so it could be a second metal-rich impact crater.[3]

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See also

References
  1. Pilkington, Mark (1997). 3-D Magnetic Imaging using Conjugate Gradients: Temagami anomaly Geophysics, Vol. 62, No. 4 (July–August 1997).
  2. Kawohl, Alexander et al. (2017).What's inside the Temagami geophysical anomaly, Sudbury District, Ontario? SGA Québec 2017 extended abstract, Vol. 4, 1543-1546.
  3. Temagami Magnetic Anomaly, retrieved on March 11, 2008.

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