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The western Superior Province sustained rapid crustal growth in the interval 2.72–2.68 Ga through amalgamation of microcontinental crustal blocks and juvenile oceanic terranes. Recent field, isotopic, and geophysical surveys provide insight on the nature, timing, and scale of this accretionary growth. However, few places offer the rich tectono-stratigraphic and structural detail with which to establish accretion of oceanic and continental blocks as does the Savant–Sturgeon area. Here, 3.4–2.8 Ga continental crust of the Winnipeg River terrane is juxtaposed with 2.775–2.718 Ga juvenile oceanic rocks of the western Wabigoon terrane across a 2.85–2.75 Ga, southwest-facing, continental margin sequence. The continental margin was reactivated at ~2.715 Ga with the establishment of an arc, recorded by 2.715–2.70 Ga tonalite and associated intermediate volcanic rocks. This magmatic activity is interpreted to reflect north- and east-dipping subduction that led to consumption of a small tract of oceanic crust between the Winnipeg River and western Wabigoon terranes, ultimately leading to their amalgamation after 2.703 Ga. The telescoped fore arc also includes continental-derived turbiditic wacke, siltstone, and iron formation (Warclub assemblage) that are in tectonic contact with diverse oceanic rocks of the western Wabigoon terrane. Collision is bracketed between 2.703 Ga (the maximum age of marine fore arc deposits) and ~2.696 Ga (the minimum age of a late-tectonic pluton). Effects include thrust stacking and the development of shallow-plunging folds and bedding-parallel fabrics (D1), overprinted by steeply plunging inclined folds, steep foliations, and shear zones (D2). Collectively, these structures have penetratively reworked the suture between the ancient fore-arc and oceanic rocks in the Savant–Sturgeon area.Back to Table of Contents [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]