| Title | Geology, Carcajou Canyon (southwest), Northwest Territories |
| Download | Downloads |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Fallas, K M ;
MacNaughton, R B |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 97, 2014, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/292289  Open Access |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Maps | 1 map |
| Map Info. | geological, bedrock and structural geology, 1:100,000 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 10 (NAD83) |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | NRCan photo(s) in this
publication |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; shp; xml; rtf; xls; JPEG2000 |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 96D/03; 96D/04; 96D/05; 96D/06 |
| Area | Carcajou Canyon; Keele River; Mackenzie Mountains |
| Lat/Long WENS | -128.0000 -127.0000 64.5000 64.0000 |
| Subjects | stratigraphy; structural geology; sedimentary rocks; marine deposits; sandstones; shales; mudstones; limestones; structural features; folds; faults; Slater River Formation; Mahony Lake Formation; Arctic
Red Formation; Bear Rock Formation; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Paleozoic; Devonian |
| Illustrations | cross-sections |
| Program | GEM:
Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Mackenzie Delta and Corridor |
| Released | 2014 06 03 |
| Abstract | The southwest quadrant of Carcajou Canyon map area (NTS 96-D) lies within the mountainous Canyon and Backbone ranges of the eastern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. Widespread exposures in
the Mackenzie Mountains include siliciclastic and carbonate strata ranging from Neoproterozoic to Devonian. These strata have been deformed by northwest- to southeast-trending folds and contractional faults associated with Cordilleran deformation. A
pre-Cordilleran set of approximately north-trending extensional faults are preserved within Proterozoic and Cambrian strata, and were locally reactivated by Cordilleran deformation. Cryogenian igneous activity resulted in the emplacement of gabbroic
sills and dykes into strata of the Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup. A major unconformity between Proterozoic (Cryogenian) and Cambrian strata represents a significant gap in the local geological record. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This publication shows the distribution of bedrock geology for the southwest quadrant of the Carcajou Canyon map area (National Topographic System 96D).
Users can learn what rock types are present in the area, and see where faults and folds affect the bedrock. Locations that have been visited by scientists to describe the rocks, or for the collection of measurements, photographs, and samples, are
indicated on the map. More details about the geology and observations are available in the GIS data files. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 292289 |
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