| Title | Geology of the Kaminak greenstone belt from Padlei to Quartzite Lake, Kivalliq region, Northwest Territories |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Hanmer, S; Peterson, T D; Sandeman, H A; Rainbird, R H ; Ryan, J J |
| Source | Canadian Shield/Bouclier canadien; by Geological Survey of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research no. 1998-C, 1998 p. 85-94, https://doi.org/10.4095/209516  Open Access |
| Year | 1998 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Canadian shield
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| File format | pdf |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 55E/13; 55E/14; 55E/15; 55E/16; 55L/01; 55L/02; 55L/03; 55L/04; 55L/05; 55L/06; 55L/07; 55L/08; 55L/09; 55L/10; 55L/11; 55L/12; 65H/15; 65H/16; 65I/01; 65I/02 |
| Area | Kivalliq; Quartzite Lake; Heninga Lake; Kaminak Lake; Turquetil Lake; Mackenzie Lake; Victory Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -97.0000 -94.0000 62.7500 61.7500 |
| Subjects | structural geology; igneous and metamorphic petrology; Archean; lithology; volcanic rocks; volcaniclastics; mafic volcanic rocks; lineations; foliation; igneous rocks; diorites; granodiorites; debris
flows; structural features; basalts; felsic volcanic rocks; arenites; iron formations; sedimentary rocks; plutonic rocks; field relations; deformation; metamorphism; Kaminak greenstone belt; Churchill Province; Hearne Province; Kaminak Group; Hurwitz
Group; Precambrian |
| Illustrations | sketch maps; photographs |
| Program | Western Churchill NATMAP Project |
| Released | 1998 03 01 |
| Abstract | Within a corridor spanning Heninga, Carr, Kaminak, and Quartzite lakes, the Archean Kaminak greenstone belt (western Churchill Province, Northwest Territories) is composed of discontinuous segments of
volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. These range in composition from mafic to felsic, with an important intermediate component, and are accompanied by voluminous debris flows and siliciclastic rocks (Kaminak Group). These supracrustal rocks are cut by
large synvolcanic to late syntectonic diorite to granodiorite plutons. The principal map-scale deformation structure is a layer-parallel S1 foliation with a steeply plunging extension lineation. Post-S1 deformation structures are discontinuous, and
therefore are difficult to correlate at map scale. The Kaminak Group appears to contain the remnants of a magmatic arc. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 209516 |
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