| Title | The 1991-1996 NATMAP Slave Province project: preface |
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| Author | King, J |
| Source | NATMAP Slave Province project/Projet NATMAP de la province des Esclaves; by Bleeker, W (ed.); Davis, W J (ed.); Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences vol. 36, no. 7, 1999 p. iii-iv |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Alt Series | Geological Survey of Canada, Contribution Series 1999019 |
| Publisher | NRC Research Press |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| Area | Slave Province |
| Lat/Long WENS | -117.0000 -105.0000 69.0000 61.0000 |
| Subjects | structural geology; tectonics; basement geology; Archean; craton; diamond; kimberlites; continental crust; mantle; isotopes; isotopic studies; plate tectonics |
| Illustrations | location maps; geological sketch maps; cross-sections, stratigraphic |
| Program | Slave Province NATMAP Project |
| Program | Polar Continental Shelf Project |
| Program | Canada-Northwest Territories Mineral Initiatives, 1991-1996 |
| Program | NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada |
| Released | 1999 01 01 |
| Abstract | The 11 papers contributed to this issue on the geology of the Slave Province are summarized, and where appropriate, links between data from the various contributions are emphasized. In the discussion,
we provide a synthesis of the present knowledge base on pre-Yellowknife Supergroup basement rocks throughout the Slave Province. All available age data on Mesoarchean and Paleoarchean basement rocks are compiled and, in a first attempt to seek
regional correlations, 10 “events” of crustal growth and (or) reworking are recognized, spanning well over 1 billion years of Earth's history. The spatial distributions of these events across the craton are discussed. Finally, we pose a series of
important questions that remain and that may help guide future research. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 210345 |
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