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Preliminary description and slope stability analyses of the 2008 Little...
In August 2008, reactivation of the Little Salmon Lake landslide occurred. During this event, hundreds of conical mounds of variable size and composition formed in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New results on the stratigraphy and placer gold potential of Indian River,...
Most of the historic placer gold recovered from the Indian River has been from the modern river gravel; however, a significant amount of placer gold has been mined from older...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Structural controls on hydrothermal gold mineralization in the White River...
New mapping and drilling associated with gold exploration has elucidated the structural and lithological controls on hydrothermal gold systems in the White River area. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Soil genesis in relation to glacial history in central Yukon
Reconnaissance studies of soils on low-elevation McConnell (~30-12 ka), Reid (~150-80 ka) and pre-Reid (~2.6-0.2 Ma) glacial deposits were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s. We...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Soil reconnaissance of the Fort Selkirk volcanic field, Yukon (115I/13 and 14)
Valley-filling basalts of the Selkirk Volcanics north and west of the Pelly River-Yukon River confluence, range in age from early Pleistocene to Holocene. Soils formed on the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Report on a Quantec Titan-24 geophysical survey over the Minto Mine, central Yukon
The following report by Quantec Geosciences Ltd. presents the results of a Titan-24 geophysical survey that was co-funded by Capstone Mining Corp. and the Yukon Geological...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary O-S isotopic compositions of Cretaceous granitoids in the...
A regional stable isotopic study of Cretaceous granitoids (109-90 Ma) emplaced into miogeoclinal Cassiar Platform and Selwyn Basin rocks was undertaken to provide new insights...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary Quaternary geology of Coal River area (NTS 95D), Yukon
Quaternary geology investigations in the Coal River map sheet (NTS 95D) during the 2009 field season focused on characterizing surficial materials and their distributions, with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results of detrital zircon geochronology, Wernecke Supergroup, Yukon
The Paleoproterozoic Wernecke Supergroup is a >13 km-thick metasedimentary succession exposed in the Wernecke, Ogilvie and Richardson mountains of central and northern Yukon. A...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Pre-Reid surficial geology investigations in southwest McQuesten map area (115P)
Recent field investigations have improved our knowledge of the Quaternary surficial geology, stratigraphy and glacial limits in the McQuesten map area. This information has...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Pressure-depth relationships of the Roop Lakes Stock and Keno Hill Ag-Pb-Zn veins
Key mineral assemblages help determine pressure, temperature and depth of emplacement for mineralized veins of the Keno Hill district, as well as for local Cretaceous pluton...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Recent Deglacierization of the Upper Wheaton River watershed, Yukon
We document rapid loss of glacier ice in the Wheaton River watershed which contains the northeastern-most glaciers within the Coast Mountains. Our research involves the study...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Residual total magnetic field, Kluane area aeromagnetic survey, 115H/4 and...
This map of the residual total magnetic field was derived from data acquired during a helicopter-borne aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Residual total magnetic field, Kluane area aeromagnetic survey, Parts of NTS...
This map of the residual total magnetic field was derived from data acquired during a helicopter-borne aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Residual total magnetic field, Kluane area aeromagnetic survey, Parts of NTS...
This map of the residual total magnetic field was derived from data acquired during a helicopter-borne aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Residual total magnetic field, Kluane area aeromagnetic survey, Parts of NTS...
This map of the residual total magnetic field was derived from data acquired during a helicopter-borne aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Duke River fault, southwest Yukon: Preliminary examination of the...
The Duke River fault is a terrane-bounding structure that separates the Alexander terrane from Wrangellia in southwest Yukon. Detailed geological mapping and sampling of three...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Proterozoic Pinguicula Group: Stratigraphy, contact relationships and...
The Pinguicula Group is a Proterozoic succession of clastic and carbonate rocks exposed in the Wernecke Mountains of northern Yukon. The strata were deposited with angular...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
What’s the Yukon Territory made of? Earth materials portrayed on a...
The Yukon Geological Survey (YGS), in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), is preparing a geological highway map (1:2 000 000 scale) of the territory with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
‘Windy-McKinley’ terrane, western Yukon: new data bearing on its...
New geochronological and geochemical data from the ‘Windy-McKinley’ terrane provide insight into the age, correlation and paleotectonic settings of the various subdivisions of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML