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Paleoproterozoic Bonnet Plume River intrusions: Evidence for a calc-alkaline...
The 1.71 Ga Bonnet Plume River intrusions (BPRI) and related volcanics are preserved only as clasts in the 1.60 Ga Wernecke breccias of Yukon that host iron-oxide copper gold...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleoproterozoic deformation of the Racklan Orogeny, Slats Creek (106D/16)...
Three events of Paleoproterozoic deformation are recognized in schist of the Fairchild Lake Group (Wernecke Supergroup) in the Wernecke Mountains. The first event produced a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleoproterozoic volcanism and plutonism in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon
The Paleoproterozoic Slab volcanics occur in three localities in the Wernecke Mountains. The largest exposure is at Slab Mountain and consists of a 0.6 x 0.25 km block of thin,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New mapping around the Slab iron oxide-copper-gold occurrence, Wernecke...
Bedrock underlying the Slab iron oxide-copper-gold occurrence consists of fine-grained sedimentary rocks and schist of the Fairchild Lake Group (oldest unit of the Early...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Plants, bugs, and a giant mammoth tusk: Paleoecology of Last Chance Creek,...
An exceptional, complete tusk of a mature male woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was recovered from a placer mining exposure on Last Chance Creek, Yukon Territory in July,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy of the Mackenzie Mountains supergroup in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon.
Mackenzie Mountains supergroup (MMSG) strata in the Wernecke Mountains are described in detail. Three new formations are assigned to the revised and formalized Hematite Creek...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Regional Stream Sediment and Water Geochemical Data, Frances Lake area,...
This open file contains analytical data for stream silt sediment, stream water and field data - originally published as GSC Open File 1649, as well as Inductively Coupled...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Report of field work on the Upper Triassic reef complex of Lime Peak,...
Field study has shown that the Upper Triassic carbonates at Lime Peak are a series of framework reefs which have shed debris into a surrounding basin. The reefs are up to 150 m...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial Geology of Carcross (NTS 105D/2), Yukon (1:50 000 scale)
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Surficial Geology of Upper Laberge (NTS 105D/14), Yukon (1:50 000 scale)
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Surficial Geology of Watson Lake (NTS 105A/2), Yukon (1:50 000 scale)
This map was produced as part of a biophysical mapping pilot project study carried out in the Watson Lake (NTS 105A/2) area in 2004. Biophysical mapping (also known as...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the southern Semenof Hills, central Yukon (105E/1,7,8)
The volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Semenof block of central Yukon have not been closely studied in the past. Recent bedrock mapping in the southern Semenof Hills highlights...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results of 1:50 000-scale geologic mapping in Wolverine Creek...
The oldest rocks in Wolverine Creek map area belong to a Devono-Mississippian metamorphic assemblage consisting of heterogeneous quartzite and orthogneiss. The quartzite unit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results of a petrological study of ultramafic rocks of the...
The Cache Creek (CCT) and Slide Mountain terranes (SMT), including the Seventymile Terrane in Alaska of the Northern Cordillera consist of oceanic assemblages that have been...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ray Gulch tungsten skarn, Dublin Gulch, central Yukon: Gold-tungsten...
The Ray Gulch tungsten skarn and the Eagle Zone intrusion-related gold deposit are associated with the Dublin Gulch intrusion, which forms part of the mid-Cretaceous Tombstone...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Resedimentation of the late Holocene White River tephra, Yukon Territory and Alaska
The Wrangell region of eastern Alaska represents a zone of extensive volcanism marked by intermittent pyroclastic activity during the late Holocene. The most recent and widely...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The co-variation of lithology and geometry in Triassic reefal limestones at...
Lime Peak is an Upper Triassic carbonate complex approximately 40 km northeast of Whitehorse. It is one of many carbonate buildups in the Whitehorse Trough which occur as...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Early Tertiary Sifton Range volcanic complex, southwestern Yukon
The early Tertiary magmatic episode in the northern Canadian Cordillera is linked to the restructuring of the Kula-North American plate system from orthogonal to oblique...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
White Channel Gravel alteration revisited
The White Channel Gravel (Pliocene) is the most important gold-bearing unit in the world famous Klondike goldfields of west-central Yukon. It is up to 46 m thick and consists...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
YukonAge 2002: A database of isotopic age determinations for rock units from...
This product contains over 1500 age determinations derived from over 1100 rock samples from the Yukon Territory in a searchable, relational-database format. The age...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML