| Title | Surficial materials of the Virden area, Manitoba and Saskatchewan |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Fulton, R J; Blais-Stevens, A ; Sun, C; Eilers, R G; Betcher, R; Elson, J A; Veldhuis, H; Fraser, W R |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin no. 546, 2004, 104 pages; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/215069  Open Access |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | CD-ROM; digital; on-line |
| File format | readme / lisez-moi
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| File format | pdf (Acrobat Reader v5.1 is included / est fourni); esp (Earth Science Publisher is included / est fourni); dbf; shp; htm; txt; jpg |
| Province | Manitoba; Saskatchewan |
| NTS | 62F |
| Area | Virden; Maryfield; Redvers; Carnduff; Melita; Delorain; Boissevain; Souris; Oak Lake; Souris River; Assiniboine River |
| Lat/Long WENS | -102.0000 -100.0000 50.0000 49.0000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; geochemistry; hydrogeology; stratigraphy; glacial deposits; bedrock geology; physiographic subdivisions; gravels; tills; glaciofluvial deposits; glaciolacustrine
deposits; landforms; eolian deposits; drift deposits; glaciation; glacial history; deglaciation; aggregates; till geochemistry; groundwater; aquifers; buried valleys; soils; Holocene; alluvial deposits; colluvial deposits; lacustrine deposits;
lithostratigraphy; moraines; data collections; stratigraphic correlations; LANDSAT imagery; Williston Basin; Turtle Mountain Formation; Boissevain Formation; Eastend Formation; Whitemud Formation; Battle Formation; Pierre Formation; Bearpaw
Formation; Odanah Member; Millwood Member; Niobrara Formation; Morden Formation; Sauk Sequence; Tippecanoe Sequence; Kaskaskia Sequence; Zuni Sequence; Quaternary; Phanerozoic; Precambrian; Cretaceous |
| Illustrations | sketch maps; cross-sections |
| Program | Southern Prairies NATMAP Project |
| Released | 2004 04 01 |
| Abstract | The Virden area study is part of the Southern Prairies NATMAP Project. In general, the area is flat and characterized by thick drift. Surface materials consist of till, clay, silt, sand, and gravel. The
thickness of drift varies from as little as 1 m, where a single till sheet overlies bedrock, to more than 100 m in buried valleys and where multiple till units are present. During the last glaciation, ice movement was generally towards the southeast.
During ice retreat, several glacial lakes formed at the margin of the retreating ice, and a number of catastrophic floods cut spillways and deposited extensive sheets of sand and gravel. The report package includes extensive databases of
field-collected information, borehole records, and aggregate data. These databases have been used to produce a wide variety of derived products which include, observed surface-material maps, drift-thickness maps etc. These have a number of uses such
as showing potential aggregate deposits, making it possible to map aquifers prone to contamination, etc. The package includes innovative software for viewing maps and databases. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 215069 |
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