| Title | Central Foreland NATMAP Project: Proterozoic to Devonian stratigraphic sections in British Columbia and Yukon |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Lane, L S (ed.);
MacNaughton, R B (ed.) |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 603, 2017, 292 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/299863  Open Access |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication contains the following
publications |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; csv; xlsx |
| Province | British Columbia; Yukon; Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 93M; 93N; 93O; 94B; 94C; 94D; 94E; 94F; 94G; 94I; 94J; 94K; 94L; 94M; 94N; 94O; 95C; 103P; 104A; 104H; 104I; 104P; 105A; 95C/05 |
| Area | Rocky Mountains; Trutch; Liard Plateau; Ware; Tuchodi Lakes; Kechika; Cry Lake; Halfway River; Pool Creek |
| Lat/Long WENS | -130.0000 -122.0000 60.5000 55.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -130.0000 -124.0000 60.0000 57.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -126.0000 -122.0000 58.0000 56.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -130.0000 -122.0000 60.0000 55.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -125.5000 -125.5000 60.5000 60.2500 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -126.0000 -122.0000 60.0000 56.0000 |
| Subjects | regional geology; stratigraphy; paleontology; geophysics; geochronology; structural geology; tectonics; fossil fuels; systematic stratigraphy; systematic paleontology; biostratigraphy;
lithostratigraphy; bedrock geology; micropaleontology; microfossils; conodonts; geological history; depositional history; tectonic evolution; volcanism; subsidence; thermal history; plate margins; unconformities; facies analyses; continental margins;
continental shelf; basins; lithology; sedimentary rocks; structural features; faults; shear zones; lineaments; cores; core analysis; stratigraphic correlations; fossils; rifting; igneous rocks; volcanic rocks; clasts; breccias; landslide deposits;
debris flow deposits; macrofossils; crustal uplift; transgressions; depositional environment; correlations; paleogeography; sedimentary structures; argillites; sandstones; siltstones; shales; mudstones; conglomerates; basalts; intrusive rocks;
syenites; hornfels; intrusions; emplacement; deformation; slumps; folding; radiometric dating; uranium lead dating; zircon dates; Eocene; continental slope; hydrothermal systems; dolomites; limestones; clastics; basement geology; folds; Canadian
Cordillera; Cordilleran Foreland; Macdonald Platform; Kechika Trough; Cassiar Terrane; Kechika Formation; Mount Sheffield Member; Haworth Member; Grey Peak Member; Quentin Member; Lloyd George Member; Road River Group; Ospika Formation; Cloudmaker
Member; Chesterfield Member; Pesika Formation; Kwadacha Formation; Northern Rocky Mountain Trench Fault; Laurentia; Great Slave Shear Zone; Liard Line; Graptolites; Ospika Embayment; Akie Reef; Skoki Formation; Keily Member; Sandpile Formation;
Balden Member; Sikanni Chief Member; Beaverfoot Formation; McCusker Formation; Nonda Formation; Robb Formation; Calnan Member; Sidenius Member; Kenny Formation; Laurier Formation; Deserters Formation; Peace River Arch; Corals; Selwyn Basin; Cassiar
Platform; Kakwa Platform; Nasina Basin; Mount Wilson Formation; Winnipeg Sandstone; Advance Formation; Mount Wilson Quartzite; Fort Nelson High; Muncho-McConnell Formation; Williston Basin; Hudson Bay Basin; Stromatoporoids; Brachiopods; Gastropods;
Sponges; Foreland Belt; Pool Creek Syenite; Crow Formation; Appekunni Formation; Windermere Supergroup; Hay Creek Group; Presqu'ile Barrier Reef Complex; Rocky Mountain Thrust Belt; Presqu'ile Dolomite; Chinchaga Formation; Slave Point Formation;
Dunedin Formation; Manetoe Dolomite; Besa River Formation; Laurier Embayment; Wokkpash Formation; Stone Formation; Watt Mountain Formation; Opsika Embayment; Keg River Formation; Road River Formation; Meilleur River Embayment; Tintina Fault; Funeral
Formation; Nahanni Formation; Muskeg Formation; Western Canada Sedimentary Basin; MacDonald Platform; Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Devonian; Silurian; Ordovician; Cambrian; Precambrian; Proterozoic; Cenozoic; Tertiary |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic charts; block diagrams; stratigraphic cross-sections; lithologic sections; photographs; fence diagrams; biostratigraphic charts; sketches;
tables; schematic cross-sections; correlation charts |
| Program | GSC Northern Canada Division |
| Program | Central Foreland NATMAP Project |
| Released | 2017 12 29 |
| Abstract | The NATMAP Program (1991-2003) of the Geological Survey of Canada had a mandate to support field-based bedrock and surficial mapping projects. The Central Foreland NATMAP Project (1997-2002) focused on
the bedrock and surficial geology of two contrasting transects across the Cordilleran foothills, one in the northern Rocky Mountain of British Columbia, the other across the Liard Plateau of southeast Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories.
Numerous stratigraphic sections were measured in support of this work. The present Bulletin provides detailed descriptions and photographic documentation of most of the Proterozoic to Devonian sections measured during the Project, as well as a number
of sections measured in the project area in the 1960s and 1970s but not previously published in detailed form. This introductory chapter summarizes the Bulletin and points the reader to additional Central Foreland NATMAP Project stratigraphic
sections that have been published in other venues. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This bulletin presents detailed descriptions and measured thicknesses for a suite of 79 stratigraphic sections ranging in age from the Late Precambrian
to the Devonian, distributed across northern British Columbia and adjacent Yukon. These descriptions permit interpretations of regional trends in the distribution of shallow water vs deeper water successions through early Paleozoic time. This
extensive data compilation underpins syntheses, presented here and in external publications, of the changes to the form and depth of western Canada's Paleozoic marginal seas and their implications for regional hydrocarbon potential. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 299863 |
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