Developing the full potential of the large igneous province (LIP) record for multi-commodity, multi-scale exploration targeting

大火成岩省（LIPs）是体积巨大，持续时间短的火山/侵入事件，每2000 - 3000万年发生一次，其重要性可与板块构造相媲美。LIPs已成为一个重要的研究热点，因为它们有助于揭示古代的构造（前盘古大陆）超级大陆，提供了对其他行星上火山活动的见解，导致了戏剧性的气候变化，包括整个地球历史上的大规模喷发，作为寻找新矿石和石油的工具，天然气矿床。这个新的LIP项目向我们的行业合作伙伴承诺，LIP记录将大幅扩展，适用于各种商品类型的资源勘探：从火成岩托管Ni-Cu-PGE地区，金托管造山带和沉积盆地，托管铀，贱金属，黄金和石油。这个新的2018-2022年LIPs项目建立在我们2010-2015年和2016-2017年行业支持项目的基础上，包括5个主题：古地磁学、地球化学、U-Pb地质年代学、地理空间数据整合和数据处理以及LIP架构。这项研究将使加拿大公司受益，因为资源勘探是一项全球努力，在任何地区使用LIP记录开发的针对性见解可以在其他地方广泛适用，包括加拿大。此外，在古代超大陆中，地壳区域的分布与现在有很大不同，因此一个重要的找矿工具是将重要的矿床追踪到以前相邻的其他地壳块体中。加拿大拥有许多最大的地壳块体，因此许多含矿存款带可以从以前的邻近地区追溯到加拿大。

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are huge volume, short duration volcanic/intrusive events that occur every 20-30 million years and rival plate tectonics in importance. LIPs have become an important research focus because they help reveal the configuration of ancient (Pre-Pangea) supercontinents, provide insights into volcanism on other planets, caused dramatic climate change including mass extinctions throughout Earth history, and are growing in importance as a tool for finding new ore and also oil/gas deposits.This new LIP project promises our Industry Partners a dramatic expansion of the LIPs record with application to resource exploration for a wide range of commodity types: from igneous hosted Ni-Cu-PGE districts, gold hosted orogenic belts and sedimentary basins that host uranium, base metals, gold and petroleum. This new 2018-2022 LIPs Project builds on our 2010-2015 and 2016-2017 Industry-supported projects, and comprises 5 themes: paleomagnetism, geochemistry, U-Pb geochronology, geospatial data consolidation and data processing and LIP architecture.This research will benefit Canadian companies because resource exploration is a global effort, and targeting insights developed in any region using the LIP record can have wide applicability elsewhere, including within Canada. Also, in ancient supercontinents the distribution of crustal regions was much different than at present.So an important prospecting tool is to trace important ore deposits into other crustal blocks that were formerly adjacent. Canada hosts many of the largest crustal blocks, and so many ore deposit bearing belts can potentially be traced into Canada from formerly adjacent regions.