| Title | Surficial geology, Root River, Northwest Territories, NTS 95-K northeast |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Duk-Rodkin, A; Huntley, D |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 295, 2018, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/299111  Open Access |
| Links | Surficial geology map collection
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| Links | Collection de données de géologie de surface
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| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Maps | 1 map |
| Map Info. | surficial geology, sediments, landforms, features, 1:100,000 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 10 (NAD83) |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf (Adobe® Reader®); rtf; gdb (ESRI® ArcGIS(TM) v.10.x); shp (ESRI® ArcGIS(TM) v.10.x); xml (ESRI® ArcGIS(TM) v.10.x); mxd (ESRI® ArcGIS(TM) v.10.x); xlsx (Microsoft® Excel®) |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 95K/09; 95K/10; 95K/15; 95K/16 |
| Area | Root River |
| Lat/Long WENS | -125.0000 -124.0000 63.0000 62.5000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; landforms; karst topography; sinkholes; channels; cirques; organic deposits; peatlands; alluvial deposits; alluvial plains; alluvial fans; colluvial deposits; landslide
deposits; landslides; rock glaciers; debris flows; slumps; mudflows; slope deposits; escarpments; eolian deposits; glacial deposits; glacial features; glacial landforms; glaciolacustrine deposits; glacial lakes; proglacial lakes; glaciofluvial
deposits; outwash; terraces; deltaic sediments; well level fluctuations; ice contact deposits; tills; till plains; till ridges; drumlins; drumlinoids; glacial flutings; meltwater channels; paleocurrents; erratics; eskers; kames; moraines; hummocks;
clasts; provenance; sediment transport; glacial erosion; beach ridges; sands; silts; gravels; clays; boulders; permafrost; ground ice; periglacial features; thermokarst; ice lenses; massive ice; bedrock geology; lithology; glacial history; Laurentide
Ice Sheet; colluvial and mass-wasting veneer; gullied terrain; glaciolacustrine blanket; glaciolacustrine veneer; glaciofluvial outwash plain sediments; glaciofluvial terraced sediments; glaciofluvial veneer; glaciofluvial outwash fan sediments; till
blanket; till veneer; ridged tills, moraine; moraine ridges; streamlined tills; lacustrine beach sediments; tension fractures; station locations, ground observation; rotational landslides; retrogressive thaw flows; translational landslides;
Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary |
| Illustrations | location maps; index maps |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Mackenzie Corridor Project Management |
| Released | 2018 12 05 |
| Abstract | The surficial geology represented in this map has been prepared at 1:50 000 scale and published at 1:100 000 scale. Surficial deposits cover approximate 95% of the map area. Exposed bedrock covers
approximately 5% of the map-area. About 45% of the total surface is covered by till (units Tb, Tv, Tp, Td, Tr, Tm, Tx, Te). Lacustrine (units Lp, Lb, Lv, Lm, Lx) deposits cover 13% of the map-area and are widespread within valleys, but are also
heavily colluviated. About 32% of the area is covered by slope deposits (units Cv, Cx and Cz) the main component being landslide deposits (unit Cz). Glaciofluvial sediments (units Gt, Gp, Gd, Gf, Gv and Gx) cover about 3% of the map area, forming
terraces along the trench and English Chief River and its tributaries. About 7% of the map area is covered by alluvial deposits (units Ap, Af, Ax). Peat deposits cover ~0.01%. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Root River map area (95-K/NE) is a terrain located on the central part of the Mackenzie Mountains foothills between Root and North Nahanni rivers,
Northwest Territories. It is part of the Southern Mackenzie Corridor. The present map is a surficial geology map published at 1:100 000 scale. The surficial material/sediments mostly represent glacial deposits associated with the Laurentide
glaciation in northwest Canada as well as montane and Cordilleran glaciations during the Late Pleistocene. Glacial sediments of older ages are well represented as cirques in the central part of the map. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 299111 |
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