The Tetapaga Syncline, also known as the Lake Tetapaga Syncline, is a northeasterly trending
syncline
In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline. A synclinorium (plural synclinoriums or synclinoria) is a large syncline with superimpose ...
in
Northeastern Ontario,
Canada
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, located in
Strathy Township of the municipality of
Temagami. It represents a major structural feature in the
Temagami Greenstone Belt, with dark green, massive and
pillowed iron-rich
tholeiitic basalts forming its core.
References
Structural geology
Geology of Temagami
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