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Biophysical map of Watson Lake area (NTS 105A/2), Yukon (1:50 000 scale)
This map was produced as part of a biophysical mapping pilot study carried out in the Watson Lake (NTS 105A/2) area in 2004. Biophysical mapping (also known as ecological land...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 -
Cirque forms and alpine glaciation during the Pleistocene, west-central Yukon
Uplands in west-central Yukon supported alpine ice centres during the pre-Reid glaciations (Early Pleistocene). Subdued cirque forms are thought to be glacial cirques that have...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Harzburgite Peak: A large mantle tectonite massif in ophiolite from southwest Yukon
Detailed mapping of bedrock in the northern Wellesley basin adjacent to the Donjek River revealed a coherent sequence of cumulus-textured gabbros, sheeted dykes, and a large...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 Plasma...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geophysical Series, parts of NTS 115J/5, 115K/7, 115K/8, 115K/9, 115K/10,...
The airborne survey was flown over the central Stevenson Ridge area. Flight line spacing is 400m in a 90-270 degree direction. Nominal terrain clearance of the EM receiver bird...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 -
Geophysical Series, parts of NTS 115J/4, 115K/1, 115K/2, 115K/7, 115K/8,...
The airborne survey was flown over the central Stevenson Ridge area. Flight line spacing is 400m in a 90-270 degree direction. Nominal terrain clearance of the EM receiver bird...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 -
No remagnetization in plutonic rocks of the Whitehorse Trough, southern...
Paleomagnetic conglomerate tests were run at three localities in the Conglomerate formation of the Jurassic Laberge Group in the southern Yukon. The localities are located...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 -
Alteration zonation, veining and mineralization associated with the Wernecke...
Detailed vertical-face mapping of 'Slab Creek' was carried out in the summer of 2001 to evaluate the relations of Wernecke Breccia bodies with alteration, veining and iron...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Targeted Geoscience Initiative, Part 2: Glacial history, till...
A regional till geochemistry project was completed in conjunction with bedrock mapping across rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and North American affinity in central Yukon. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological and U-Pb age constraints on base and precious metal vein systems...
Epithermal vein and porphyry-related gold-silver deposits in the Mount Nansen area are mainly hosted in Paleozoic Yukon-Tanana Terrane metasedimentary rocks and Early Jurassic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Volcano-sedimentary megaclast in Wernecke breccia, Yukon, and its bearing on...
A group of hydrothermal breccias, collectively known as Wernecke breccia, formed at approximately 1.60 Ga in Yukon. The breccias consist of a hydrothermally precipitated matrix...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Dezadeash Range and adjacent northern Coast Mountains (115A),...
Granodiorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex intruded metasedimentary rocks in the Dezadeash Range of the northern Coast Belt in the late Mesozoic. Graphitic staurolite-biotite...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 -
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 -
Geology, mineralization and sampling results from the Kalzas tungsten...
Kalzas, in central Yukon, is a porphyry-style stockwork and sheeted-vein wolframite deposit. Alteration includes a potassic core, a quartz-tourmaline-sericite zone and an outer...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology at the contact between Yukon-Tanana and Cassiar terranes, southeast...
Paleozoic platformal and basinal strata of Cassiar Terrane are separated from rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane to the west by an unexposed fault in southeast Glenlyon map area....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML