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High level terraces along Lower Stewart River and parts of Yukon River
Surficial geology mapping of the lower Stewart River valley has revealed sets of high level terraces formed when the paleo-Stewart River and the paleo-Yukon River were at higher...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Interlayered sedimentary-volcanic sequence, Mt. Skukum volcanic complex
The Eocene Skukum volcanic complex, 60 km south-southwest of Whitehorse, is elliptical in plan, covers an area of about 140 km², and unconformably overlies Cretaceous granitic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geologic setting, genesis, and potential of the Rusty Springs Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu...
Despite many years of exploration and relatively limited success, the Rusty Springs prospect retains considerable potential for a large-tonnage deposit. The property lies within...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Lithogeochemistry of meta-volcanic rocks from Yukon-Tanana Terrane,...
In this paper, we present a preliminary assessment of the lithogeochemical characteristics of meta-volcanic rocks in the Finlayson Lake region. Unit 2 mafic meta-volcanic rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Massive Sulphide Deposits in the Yukon-Tanana and Adjacent Terranes
Recent discoveries of at least two types of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits hosted in varying terranes have greatly expanded the mineral potential of the Yukon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Joe Mountain Map Area (105D/15), Southern Yukon Territory
The Joe Mountain map area, northeast of Whitehorse, is underlain by folded, Upper Triassic and Jurassic sedimentary and volcanic strata of the Whitehorse Trough which are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Whitehorse Coal Deposit
Anthracite in floodplain deposits of the Cretaceous Tantalus Formation is preserved in a west-trending graben on the south side of Mt. Granger, 24 km southwest of Whitehorse....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Glaciation, gravel and gold in the Fifty Mile Creek area, west-central Yukon
Previously unrecognized glacial erosional landforms (i.e. cirques, u-shaped troughs, truncated spurs and arêtes, in order of increasing doubt), and glacial depositional...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold and sulphide mineralization in the Hunker Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada
The Hunker Creek area is located 30 km southeast of Dawson City, Yukon. Gold and sulphide-bearing quartz veins (MINFILE 115O 067, 068) crosscut metamorphic rocks of the Klondike...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Local Scale Biophysical Mapping for Integrated Resource Management, Watson...
Biophysical or ecosystem mapping is built on the principle that vegetation composition and distribution responds in predictable ways to specific abiotic terrain conditions....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the EPD Stanniferous Breccia Deposit, McQuesten Area, 115 P, Yukon
The EPD property is located in central Yukon, 30 km northwest of Mayo, just south of the McQuesten River. Tin, zinc, and silver anomalies found in stream sediment samples of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the south zone deposits, Jason property, Macmillan Pass area, Yukon
Mineralized zones on the Jason property are stratifrom, sediment hosed Pb-Zn-barite deposits that occur in a Late Devonian age marine carbonaceous shale and turbidite sequence....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Granitic rocks and associated mineral deposits of the Whitehorse Map-Area,...
This report demonstrates that the stratigraphic, compositional and textural data are sufficient to easily distinguish the four major granitic rock types in the area. This is an...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Jurassic plate motions of the Stikine Terrane, southern Yukon: A...
The ~177 Ma Teslin Crossing Pluton was studied paleomagnetically to determine the post-Early Jurassic tectonic motions of the northern Stikine Terrane. There are few published...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Glass-fission-track ages of Late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Klondike...
A distinctive and widespread tephra bed is a very useful stratigraphic tool, especially if its age is accurately and precisely known. However, distal tephra beds, like those in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Character and metallogeny of Permian, Jurassic and Cretaceous plutons in the...
Between the Swift and Nisutlin rivers, unmetamorphosed granite to ultramafic intrusions of four ages (from Permian through Cretaceous) span the amalgamation of Cassiar Platform...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mamu-Bravo-Kulan claims: A VHMS exploration target based on geochmical and...
The Mamu-Bravo-Kulan property is situated within the Cassiar Platform which is composed mainly of moderately faulted and folded Paleozoic miogeoclinal clastic and carbonate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Flood basalts of the Wrangellia Terrane, southwest Yukon: Implications for...
The Wrangellia Terrane along the northwest margin of North America is an extensive accreted oceanic plateau. These volcanic sequences erupted onto an extinct island arc in less...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Felsic metavolcanic rocks at Matt Berry: A new deposit model
Exhalative Pb-Zn-Cu mineralization of the Matt Berry deposit is hosted in polydeformed black shale that is underlain by a strongly deformed felsic schist. The copper-rich nature...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Aishihik Lake and Hopkins Lake Map Areas (115 H/6,7),...
Paleozoic and older metamorphic rocks in the Aishihik Lake and Hopkins Lake map areas (115 H/6 and 7) comprise the Aishihik Metamorphic Suite (AMS) and form a north-northwest-...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML