| Title | Report of activities for the GEM-2 Mackenzie project: Devonian litho- and biostratigraphy in the northern Mackenzie Mountains |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Gouwy, S A ;
Tingley, L M; Deblonde, C; Chan, W C |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8332, 2017, 11 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/306213  Open Access |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is related to Report of activities for the
GEM 2 Mackenzie Project: Northern Mackenzie Mountains bedrock mapping, stratigraphy, and related studies |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 106A; 106B |
| Area | Mackenzie Mountains; Bonnet Plume Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -130.0000 -126.0000 65.0000 64.0000 |
| Subjects | regional geology; stratigraphy; paleontology; geophysics; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; shales; carbonates; siltstones; sandstones; limestones; petroleum resources; petroleum
exploration; source rocks; oil; gas; lithostratigraphy; biostratigraphy; stratigraphic analyses; stratigraphic correlations; Frasnian; micropaleontology; microfossils; conodonts; palynology; geophysical surveys; gamma-ray spectrometers; gamma-ray
surveys; scintillometer surveys; Imperial Formation; Hume Formation; Mackenzie Plain; Peel Plain; Horn River Group; Hare Indian Formation; Canol Formation; Ramparts Formation; Hailstone Formation; Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Devonian |
| Illustrations | photographs; location maps; satellite images; biostratigraphic charts |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Mackenzie Corridor, Shield to Selwyn |
| Released | 2017 11 16 |
| Abstract | (Summary)
Northern Mackenzie Mountains bedrock mapping and stratigraphic studies are a component of the Mackenzie-Selwyn geo-transect: studying the evolution of sedimentary rocks of the
northern mainland NWT to improve exploration success for petroleum resources and base metal deposits (Figure 1). This activity will initiate the first regional integrated effort to place Proterozoic to Cenozoic strata of the Mackenzie Platform,
Selwyn Basin, and adjacent regions into a modern tectono-stratigraphic and metallogenic framework, and will better enable industry and Northerners to responsibly find and develop energy and mineral natural resources, maximizing their economic and
societal impact.
This report provides a short account of the field activities in the Bonnet Plume map area (NTS 106B) of the Mackenzie Mountains (NWT). Fieldwork was conducted by the Devonian paleontology team, as part of the Arctic Red field
party (MacNaughton et al., 2017), between July 4 and July 20, 2017. Information presented in this report concerns the biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic characterization of Devonian units related to the geological mapping of the area. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This Open File reports on the 2017 fieldwork of the Devonian paleontology team (GEM2 Mackenzie Project) in the Northern Mackenzie Mountains, NWT. The
crew described and sampled three sections in the Middle-Upper Devonian Horn River Group for conodont biostratigraphy and palynology. Focus is on the contact between the Hume and Canol formations to locate the base of the Givetian stage (Middle
Devonian) and obtain detailed age constraint data on the Canol Formation in the Bonnet Plume map area (NTS106B) in support of bedrock mapping. Conodonts are an extinct marine protochordate group and the fast morphological evolution of their hard
tissue teeth-like remains is used to constrain the age of calcareous Paleozoic rocks. Palynology is the study of palynomorphs (pollen and spores) and provides information on the paleoenvironment and age constraint of organic rich shales. Their
combination will provide us with a strong age control on the upper Hume Formation and the Canol Formation for correlation of the new sections with the regional and global stratigraphy. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 306213 |
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