| Title | The evolution of Keele Arch, a multiphase feature of the northern mainland, Northwest Territories |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | MacLean, B C; Fallas, K M ; Hadlari, T |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 606, 2015, 47 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/293877  Open Access |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories; Yukon |
| NTS | 95N; 95O; 96B; 96C; 96D; 96E; 96F; 96G; 96J; 96K; 96L; 96M; 96N; 96O; 97B; 97C; 106F; 106G; 106H; 106I; 106J; 106K; 106L; 106N; 106O; 106P; 107A |
| Area | Colville Hills; Franklin Mountains; Mackenzie Valley; Great Bear Plain; Peel Plateau; Peel Plain; Horton Plain; Anderson Plain |
| Lat/Long WENS | -134.0000 -122.0000 70.0000 63.0000 |
| Subjects | structural geology; stratigraphy; geophysics; structural features; faults; folds; stratigraphic analyses; tectonic setting; erosion; depositional environment; depositional history; fold axes; Keele
Arch; Paleozoic; Cambrian; Silurian; Ordovician; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Cretaceous |
| Illustrations | location maps; stratigraphic columns |
| Program | GEM:
Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Mackenzie Delta and Corridor |
| Released | 2016 01 28 |
| Abstract | Keele Arch is a zone of structural, erosional, and depositional features along a corridor between the eastern Colville hills and the Franklin Mountains, Northwest Territories. It has a long history of
basin-to-arch reversals.
Paleomaps and sections illustrate the arch's evolution through six phases: 1) uplift as a very early Cambrian pre-rift high, 2) subsidence into a graben chain during Cambrian to mid-Ordovician time, 3) uplift of its
southern half into a pre-Devonian arch extending southward from the present day northern Franklin Mountains to beyond Johnson River, 4) renewed uplift into a pre-Cretaceous arch running from north of Lac des Bois to Johnson River, 5) mid-Cretaceous
reactivation of the pre-Cretaceous and southern pre-Devonian arches, 6) subsidence of its central zone into Brackett Basin and inversion of the Cambrian McConnell graben into the McConnell Range during late-Campanian to Paleocene time.
Keele Arch
consists of four parts: 1) a northern segment extending northeastward from the Northern Franklin Mountains toward Lac des Bois; 2) the north half of Keele Tectonic Zone under the northern Franklin Mountains; 3) between Brackett Lake and Keele River;
4) a fourth and poorly understood segment under Mackenzie Valley, south of Keele River, where the arch axes appear to fall into two sets: an eastern set of Cambrian to mid-Ordovician sag axes and latest Silurian to Eocene uplifts, and a western set
of Cambrian to mid-Cretaceous arch axes that tracks across a block of Proterozoic rock directly overlain by Devonian strata.
The arch's economic significance is not fully understood. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Keele anomaly is today an arch extending from north of Lac des Bois to near Johnson R in the NWT but has undergone both subsidence and uplift.
Paleo-geology maps and sections show six development phases: 1) uplift - very early Cambrian bulge. 2) subsidence - graben chain in Cambrian to mid-Ordovician time. 3) uplift - Keele Tectonic Zone (KTZ) and an area to its south in the Late Silurian.
4) renewed uplift - pre-Cretaceous arch. 5) reactivation of the pre-Cret, and part of the pre-Dev, arch during the mid-Cret. 6) subsidence - Brackett Basin in late-Campanian to Paleocene and Eocene inversion of McConnell Graben into McConnell Range.
The anomaly has four parts: 1) Northern Franklin Mtns to Lac des Bois. 2) The north half of KTZ (northern Franklin Mtns). 3) The south half of KTZ (Brackett L. to Keele R). 4) Under Mackenzie Valley, south of Keele R. Axes in two sets: eastern set
of Camb. to mid-Ord. sags and latest Sil. to Eocene uplifts; western set of Camb. to mid-Cret. arches. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 293877 |
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