When Lava Flooded East Canada; The Matachewan Dike Swarm

In what is today a cold portion of Canada, there was once miles upon miles thick of lava which flooded the landscape for as far as the eye could see. This occurred across hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, as supermassive floods of lava repeatedly covered the landscape. This is the story of the Matachewan dike swarm, and the supercontinent Kenorland during the Siderian period. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Boston Heath, BostonHeath.com, Used with Permission. If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon:   / geologyhub  ) (YouTube membership:    / @geologyhub  ) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at geologyhubyt@gmail.com and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Sources/Citations: [1] Geological Survey of Canada [2] D.A.D. Evans, H.C. Halls, Restoring Proterozoic deformation within the Superior craton, Precambrian Research, Volume 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 474-489, ISSN 0301-9268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2.... (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...) [3] T. Jake R. Ciborowski, Andrew C. Kerr, Richard E. Ernst, Iain McDonald, Matthew J. Minifie, Stephen S. Harlan, Ian L. Millar, The Early Proterozoic Matachewan Large Igneous Province: Geochemistry, Petrogenesis, and Implications for Earth Evolution, Journal of Petrology, Volume 56, Issue 8, August 2015, Pages 1459–1494, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egv038 [4] T. Jake R. Ciborowski, Andrew C. Kerr, Iain McDonald, Richard E. Ernst, Matthew J. Minifie, The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Blue Draw Metagabbro, Lithos, Volume 174, 2013, Pages 271-290, ISSN 0024-4937, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.... (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...) [5] Phinney, W & Halls, Henry. (2011). Petrogenesis of the Early Proterozoic Matachewan dyke swarm, Canada, and implications for magma emplacement and subsequent deformation. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 38. 1541-1563. 10.1139/cjes-38-11-1541. [6] Slabunov, Alexander & Guo, Jinghui & Balagansky, Victor & Lubnina, Natalia & Zhang, Lifei. (2017). EARLY PRECAMBRIAN CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF THE BELOMORIAN AND TRANS-NORTH CHINA OROGENS AND SUPERCONTINENTS RECONSTRUCTION. Geodynamics & Tectonophysics. 8. 569-572. 10.5800/GT-2017-8-3-0293., CC BY 4.0. [7] Lubnina, Natalia & Slabunov, Alexander. (2011). Reconstruction of the Kenorland supercontinent in the Neoarchean based on paleomagnetic and geological data. Moscow University Geology Bulletin. 66. 242-249. 10.3103/S0145875211040077. 0:00 Ancient Canada 1:19 Dike Swarm 1:56 Ancient Earth 2:43 Flood Basalt 4:01 Erosion