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Variations in the depth and thickness of the White River Ash in lakes of the...
The purpose of this study is to document the depth and thickness of the White River Ash in lakes across the southwest Yukon for use in paleoenvironmental impact studies....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 -
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....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon NGR Stream Sediment Database Assessment Project
In order to summarize the status of the Yukon NGR program this report provides details on the collection, preparation and analysis of stream sediment samples located within 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 -
U-Pb age and geochemical studies of Mississippian and Cretaceous plutonic...
The Reid Lakes batholith (RLB) in southwestern McQuesten map area (115P) has previously been tentatively assigned a mid-Cretaceous age, although two K-Ar ages from the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A summary of Rock-Eval data for the Bonnet Plume Basin, Yukon: Implications...
Previous studies based on regional geology, sediment type and stratigraphic thickness, concluded that the Bonnet Plume Basin in northeastern Yukon has gas potential, but...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geoscience Needs: Results of the Fourth Yukon Geoscience Planning Workshop
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Current thinking on Dawson Range Tectonics and Metallogeny.
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First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Kluane area aeromagnetic...
This map of the first vertical derivative of the total magnetic field was derived from data acquired during a helicopter-borne aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne...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 -
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 -
Major and trace-element composition of platinum group minerals and their...
Occurrences of placer platinum-group minerals (PGM) were reported in several gold placer deposits in Yukon. The source rock and the type of platinum mineralization are not known...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Evaluation of titanite as an indicator mineral for tungsten-skarn mineralization
One of the challenges in exploring for skarn mineralization is that barren skarn may not give any indication that mineralization is close by. The purpose of the present study is...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ar-Ar geochronology and Pb isotopic constraints on the origin of the Rau...
The Rau deposit in central Yukon is a gold-rich carbonate replacement deposit hosted in mid-Paleozoic carbonate rocks of the Mackenzie Platform in the footwall of the Dawson...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 -
Upper Fifteenmile Group in the Ogilvie Mountains and correlations of early...
An ~2-km-thick stratigraphic section measured through three consecutive shale-carbonate sequences documents the previously undescribed upper Fifteenmile Group in the Coal Creek...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 -
Total magnetic field, Flat River Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 95 E (south half), Yukon
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First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Flat River Aeromagnetic...
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