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Late Wisconsinan McConnell ice-flow and sediment distribution patterns in...
Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation (ca. 24-11 ka) occurred in four phases in the Pelly Mountains of southern Yukon. Phase 1 marked the onset of ice accumulation in cirques...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology and geochemistry of the Pattison Alaskite Pluton, Yukon
The Pattison Pluton is a high level Tertiary subaluminous alaskite that is part of a northwest trending chain of igneous intrusions in the Yukon Crystalline Terrane,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology and geochemistry of tin and tungsten mineralized plutons,...
Mid-Cretaceous plutons in the McQuesten River region intrude Upper Proterozoic to Mississippian miogeoclinal metasedimentary rocks of Selwyn Basin. They form a belt trending...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrotectonic study of the Teslin suture zone, Yukon: A progress report
The Teslin suture zone (TSZ) forms the fundamental boundary between rocks deposited along the ancient margin of North America and allochthonous terranes to the west. Both North...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Phosphorites, ironstones, and secondary phosphates in Mid-Cretaceous flysch...
The Blow River Formation was deposited in the Blow Trough, a north-trending, middle Cretaceous downwarp near the junction of the Western Canada Seaway and the Brooks and...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposit grain size and water quality sampling program
A program of placer deposit sediment and water sampling was initiated by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND) in the summer of 1998 to investigate possible relationships...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of Clear Creek drainage basin 115 P, central Yukon
Placer gold in the Clear Creek drainage basin is found in a variety of gravel deposits, each of which is associated with a specific geological setting. The schematic profile of...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of the Yukon: overview and potential for new discoveries
Historic placer mining areas in Yukon can be grouped into ten areas: Klondike; Sixtymile; Fortymile; Clear Creek; Moosehorn Range; Stewart River; Clear Creek; Mayo; Dawson...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits: Their formation, evaluation, and exploitation, Yukon
The formation of placer deposits has several prerequisites. They include a source for the gold, a mechanism to concentrate it, and time for the concentrating mechanism to work....Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer gold and associated heavy minerals of the Clear Creek drainage,...
Placer gold mining in Clear Creek extends back to 1900, when the discovery claim was staked. Approximately 129,000 crude ounces (4012 kg) of gold have been reported since 1941...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer gravels of Miller Creek, Sixtymile River area, 116 B,C
Within the Sixtymile River drainage basin, Quaternary placer deposits include tributary valley bottom gulch gravel, a broad main valley alluvial plain, and high level terrace...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
On the geology of the Tertiary Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare province, St....
The Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare province of southwestern Yukon are part of the larger Wrangell volcanic belt that has been active throughout the Late Cenozoic. These lavas...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ore mineralogy and formation conditions of vein and replacement-type...
The Logan (MINFILE 105B 099) and YP (MINFILE 105B 001) zinc-lead-silver deposits are located in the Rancheria District, Yukon Territory. These deposits and numerous other...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Origin of gold in the White Channel sediments of the Klondike region, Yukon Territory
Results of a study to determine the origin of alteration in the Plio-Pleistocene White Channel sediments and bedrock using field observations, mineralogical and geochemical...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Origin of the Clinton Creek Asbestos Deposit
Asbestos in most Cordilleran deposits has been considered a product of fracturing, metasomatism and thermal metamorphism of ultramafic rocks by mesozoic intrusions. Such a...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Overview of Yukon placer geology, gold production and prospects
The physiography and glacial history of Yukon bear directly on the geological setting, grade and economic viability of Yukon placer deposits. The limits of several advances of...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic study of the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, Yukon:...
Paleomagnetic results are presented for 154 specimens from 16 sites in the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, a small granodioritic intrusion emplaced into Paleozoic gneisses...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Permo-Triassic Isotopic Dates for Blueschist, Ross River Area, Yukon
Rb-Sr and K-Ar age determinations for muscovite-bearing blueschist in the Yukon Tanana terrane near Ross River indicate a minimum metamorphic age of approximately 250 Ma, and a...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Post-glacial vegetation history of the Aishihik Basin and its vicinity,...
Nine pollen profiles were obtained along a broad latitudinal transect extending from the Upper Nisling Valley to the Ittlemit Lake and Bear Lakes areas in the southwest Yukon...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New paleontological investigations of upper Triassic shallow-water reef...
The thickest and best-developed Upper Triassic reef complex in the entire North American Cordillera is at Lime Peak in the southern Yukon. The Lime Peak reef complex is a...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML