| Title | Chinkeh Formation, northeastern British Columbia: detrital zircon geochronology sample descriptions,
methodology and data tables |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Matthews, W; McMechan, M ; Ferri, F; Guest, B |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8016, 2016, 17 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/298756  Open Access |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | digital; on-line |
| File format | readme
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| File format | rtf; pdf; xls |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 94O/11; 94O/12 |
| Area | Liard River |
| Lat/Long WENS | -124.0000 -123.0000 59.7500 59.5000 |
| Subjects | geochronology; sedimentology; zirconium geochemistry; zircon dates; zircon; radiometric dates; radiometric dating; analytical methods; sedimentary rocks; sandstones; shales; conglomerates; Chinkeh
Formation; Liard Basin; Mesozoic; Cretaceous |
| Illustrations | location maps; photomicrographs; plots; Concordia diagrams |
| Program | Geoscience for New Energy Supply (GNES) Shale Reservoir Characterization |
| Released | 2016 06 01 |
| Abstract | Sandstone, shale and conglomerate of the Chinkeh Formation occur at the base of the Cretaceous section in the Liard Basin of northeastern British Columbia, southeastern Yukon and southwestern Northwest
Territories. The age of this unit and the degree of western provenance has been a source of debate. This report provides sample information, detrital zircon methodology and the complete filtered data tables for the suite of samples from the Chinkeh
Formation. These data document an Albian to latest Aptian age for the formation and a dominant recycled Ellesmerian provenance. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Sandstone, shale and conglomerate of the Chinkeh Formation occur at the base of the Cretaceous section in the Liard Basin of northeastern British
Columbia, southeastern Yukon and southwestern Northwest Territories. The age of this unit and the degree of western provenance has been a source of debate. This report provides sample information, detrital zircon methodology and the complete
filtered data tables for the suite of samples from the Chinkeh Formation. These data document an Albian to latest Aptian age for the formation and a dominant recycled Ellesmerian provenance. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 298756 |
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