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TitleOverview of the age, evolution, and petroleum potential of the Eagle Plain Basin, Yukon
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LicencePlease note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada supersedes any previous licences.
AuthorLane, L SORCID logo; Bell, K M; Issler, D RORCID logo
SourceSedimentary basins of northern Canada: contributions to a 1000 Ma geological journey and insight on resource potential; by Lavoie, DORCID logo (ed.); Dewing, KORCID logo (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 609, 2022 p. 77-89, https://doi.org/10.4095/326092 Open Access logo Open Access
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Year2022
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Documentserial
Lang.English
Mediaon-line; digital
RelatedThis publication is contained in Sedimentary basins of northern Canada: contributions to a 1000 Ma geological journey and insight on resource potential
File formatpdf
ProvinceYukon
NTS116A; 116B; 116G; 116H; 116I; 116J; 116O; 116P
AreaEagle Plains
Lat/Long WENS-140.0000 -136.0000 68.0000 64.0000
Subjectsregional geology; stratigraphy; structural geology; paleontology; geochemistry; geochronology; tectonics; fossil fuels; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Economics and Industry; sedimentary basins; intermontane basins; basin evolution; petroleum resources; petroleum exploration; hydrocarbon potential; systematic stratigraphy; biostratigraphy; fossils; fossil distribution, geographic; fossil distribution, strata; lithostratigraphy; tectonic evolution; tectonic history; deformation; thermal history; depositional history; source areas; sedimentary environments; marine environments; paleogeography; fission-track dates; modelling; zircon dates; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; siltstones; shales; sandstones; Eagle Plain Basin; Canadian Cordillera; Foreland Belt; Laurentian Margin; Rodinia; Richardson Trough; Eagle Plain Group; Parkin Formation; Fishing Branch Formation; Burnthill Creek Formation; Cody Creek Formation; Whitestone River Formation; Economic impact; Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous
Illustrationsgeoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic charts
ProgramGEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals GEM Synthesis
Released2022 12 20; 2023 09 14
AbstractNew mapping, biostratigraphy, geochemistry, and organic petrology results have led to new insights into the structural evolution, depositional history, and resource potential of the Eagle Plain Basin. Apatite fission-track modelling resolves at least two distinct heating-cooling cycles and suggests that sediment was sourced from the east, as well as from the south. A recently identified marine-slope setting in the west of the basin represents a new petroleum play. Advances in understanding the age and depositional history of the Eagle Plain Group derive from new fossil localities, a new bentonite age, and detrital zircon data. Initiated in the Cenomanian, or possibly latest Albian, deposition continued until the late Maastrichtian, although post-Coniacian deposits may have been subsequently eroded, or bypassed across southern parts of the basin. New petroleum resource appraisals include new petroleum exploration-play concepts, as well as qualitative assessments of unconventional oil and gas potential.
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This short monograph contribution summarizes the significant scientific advances in understanding the geological history of the largest sedimentary basin in Yukon that contains active oil and gas leases. These results led to a new petroleum resource assessment of the basin.
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