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TitleGeology, Winter Cove Bay, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
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AuthorBédard, J H; Rainbird, R HORCID logo; Williamson, M -CORCID logo
SourceGeological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 193, 2015, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/297282 Open Access logo Open Access
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Year2015
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Editionprelim.
Documentserial
Lang.English
Maps1 map
Map Info.geological, bedrock and structural geology, 1:50,000
ProjectionUniversal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 11 (NAD83)
Mediaon-line; digital
RelatedNRCan photo(s) in this publication
File formatreadme
File formatpdf; shp; xml; rtf; xls
ProvinceNorthwest Territories
NTS87G/07
AreaVictoria Island; Winter Cove Bay; Walker Bay
Lat/Long WENS-118.0000 -117.0000 71.8000 71.5000
Subjectsstratigraphy; structural geology; bedrock geology; sedimentary rocks; marine deposits; sandstones; dolostones; limestones; siltstones; shales; evaporites; carbonates; igneous rocks; volcanic rocks; dykes; sills; faults; intrusive rocks; structural features; Uvayualuk Formation; Franklin Intrusions; Shaler Supergroup; Minto Inlet Formation; Reynolds Point Group; Jago Bay Formation; Fort Collinson Foramtion; Boot Inlet Formation; Precambrian; Proterozoic
ProgramGEM: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals PGE/Base Metals - Victoria Island (NWT and Nunavut)
Released2015 12 14
AbstractNTS 87-G/10 (Winter Cove Bay) and the southern part of NTS 87-G/15 are mostly underlain by Neoproterozoic Shaler Supergroup sedimentary rocks, with limestone and dolostone of the Boot Inlet and Jago Bay formations, quartz arenite of the Fort Collinson Formation, and gypsum evaporite of the Minto Inlet Formation. Sedimentary rocks are injected by basaltic sills and dykes of Franklin age (ca. 720 Ma) that can be divided into older, more olivine rich Type 1 intrusions and younger diabasic to feldspar-porphyritic Type 2 intrusions. Strata are either flat-lying, or dip gently to the north or south to either side of the Walker Bay Anticline. Steeper bedding orientations occur near faults as a result of structural entrainment. A regional-scale unconformity separates Paleozoic clastic and carbonate rocks in the north from underlying Proterozoic rocks to the south, but the contact is often faulted, and isolated domains of Paleozoic rocks are preserved within graben. North-northwest-trending syn-magmatic (Proterozoic) and east-northeast-trending (Phanerozoic) normal faults are ubiquitous, breaking up the outcrop pattern into a series of polygonal blocks.
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bedrock geology map of sheet 87 G10, Victoria island NWT
GEOSCAN ID297282

 
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