| Title | Outcrop and remote predictive geology of the Amer Belt and basement beside and beneath the northeast Thelon Basin, in parts of NTS 66-A, B, C, F, G and H, Kivalliq Region, Nunavut |
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| Author | Jefferson, C W; White, J C; Young, G M; Patterson, J; Tschirhart, V L; Pehrsson, S J; Calhoun, L; Rainbird, R H; Peterson, T D; Davis, W J; Tella, S; Chorlton, L B; Scott, J M J; Percival, J A; Morris, W
A; Keating, P; Anand, A; Shelat, Y; MacIsaac, D |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7242, 2015, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/296825 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Maps | 2 maps |
| Map Info. | geological, bedrock, structural geology, 1:133,333 |
| Map Info. | geological, bedrock, structural geology, 1:50,000 |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; xls; rtf; cdr |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 66A; 66B; 66C; 66F; 66G; 66H |
| Area | Kivalliq Region |
| Lat/Long WENS | -102.0000 -96.0000 66.0000 64.0000 |
| Subjects | geophysics; stratigraphy; structural geology; radioactive minerals; bedrock geology; basement geology; stratigraphic analyses; stratigraphic correlations; structural features; structural
interpretations; structural analyses; geophysical surveys; aeromagnetic surveys; aeromagnetic interpretation; uranium; faults; syenites; lithostratigraphy; Archean; Amer Group; Thelon Basin; Amer Belt; Kethet River Group; Oora Lake Formation; Showing
Lake Formation; Itza Lake Formation; Three Lakes Formation; Five Mile Lake Formation; Resort Lake Formation; Ayagaq Lake Formation; digital elevation models; remote predictive mapping; Proterozoic; Precambrian |
| Illustrations | stratigraphic columns; block diagrams; stratigraphic columns; cross-sections; tables |
| Program | Rae Province Project Management, GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals |
| Released | 2015 07 28 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Maps herein cover the Amer Belt and surrounds in outcrop, and their extensions beneath flat sandstone of the Amarook and Thelon formations in the
Aberdeen Sub-basin. The Paleoproterozoic Amer Group comprises four major sequences: Ps1) white quartzarenite; Ps2) black graphitic slate, tan dolostone and dark green basalt; Ps3) grey-green-brown slate, feldspathic sandstone and slate; and Ps4) red
to grey arkosic sandstone and mudstone. Ps1-3 were tightly folded and faulted with little metamorphism before Ps4 (~1.91 Ga). All Ps were structurally intercalated with Archean gneiss and supracrustal rocks and metamorphosed ca 1.83 Ga. Igneous
suites are ca 2.6, 1.83, 1.75 and 1.27 Ga. Disseminated uraninite pods in feldspathic sandstone of Ps3 were deformed into SW plunging cigar shapes. Prospective strata and structures were geophysically traced under till and sandstone as guides for
possible mineral development and other uses of the northeast Thelon Basin region of Nunavut. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296825 |
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