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Paleomagnetism and geobarometry of the Granite Mountain batholith, Yukon:...
Paleomagnetic and geobarometric results are reported here for the Early Jurassic Granite Mountain batholith, an ~600 km² granodiorite intrusion in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative (southeastern Yukon), Part 1:...
The Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative, conducted jointly by the Geological Survey of Canada and Yukon Geology Program, comprised new geological mapping and till...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Tectonic significance of plutonism in the Thirtymile Range, southern Yukon
Two distinct but undeformed suites of granitic plutons intrude deformed siliciclastic rocks in western Dorsey Terrane. A calc-alkaline hornblende-bearing gabbro to granodiorite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy and regional implications of unstrained Devono-Mississippian...
Relatively unstrained Devonian-Mississippian volcanic and volcano-sedimentary rocks have been documented in the Money Creek thrust sheet in Finlayson Lake map area. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology and till geochemistry of Weasel Lake map area (105G/13),...
Weasel Lake map area (105G/13) is located at the northwestern end of the Finlayson Lake belt (displaced Yukon-Tanana Terrane) and extends northward into ancient North American...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic study of the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, Yukon:...
Paleomagnetic results are presented for 154 specimens from 16 sites in the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, a small granodioritic intrusion emplaced into Paleozoic gneisses...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the Pool Creek map area (95C/5), southeastern Yukon
Fieldwork in the northwest corner of Pool Creek map area (NTS 95C/5) during the summer of 2000 distinguished North and South areas with distinct stratigraphies and deformation...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New paleontological investigations of upper Triassic shallow-water reef...
The thickest and best-developed Upper Triassic reef complex in the entire North American Cordillera is at Lime Peak in the southern Yukon. The Lime Peak reef complex is a...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 -
Finlayson project: Geological evolution of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and its...
Geological mapping in Wolverine Lake area has outlined new Yukon-Tanana Terrane stratigraphy, constrained the stratigraphic position of the Wolverine Lake volcanogenic massive...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
'Alpine-type' ultramafic rocks of the Kluane metamorphic assemblage,...
Mica-quartz schist and olivine serpentinites form the Kluane metamorphic assemblage, a 150-km-long belt that is wedged between the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and the Insular...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemical and metallogenic investigations of Cretaceous intrusions in...
The geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous intrusions and associated mineralization in southeastern Yukon and southwestern NWT is the focus of a new research project. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on preliminary bedrock mapping in the Fire Lake area
New geological mapping around the Fyre Lake Cu-Co-Au deposit in Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southeastern Yukon, has established the continuity of stratigraphic units from nearby Grass...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemistry, paleotectonic setting and metallogeny of Late...
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age (~220-185 Ma) intrusions comprise one of the most widespread and volumetrically significant plutonic suites in central and western Yukon, and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML