| Title | Overview of the age, evolution, and petroleum potential of the Eagle Plain Basin, Yukon |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Lane, L S ; Bell,
K M; Issler, D R |
| Source | Sedimentary basins of northern Canada: contributions to a 1000 Ma geological journey and insight on resource potential; by Lavoie, D (ed.); Dewing, K (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 609, 2022 p. 77-89, https://doi.org/10.4095/326092  Open Access |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Sedimentary basins of
northern Canada: contributions to a 1000 Ma geological journey and insight on resource potential |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Yukon |
| NTS | 116A; 116B; 116G; 116H; 116I; 116J; 116O; 116P |
| Area | Eagle Plains |
| Lat/Long WENS | -140.0000 -136.0000 68.0000 64.0000 |
| Subjects | regional 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 |
| Illustrations | geoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic charts |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals GEM Synthesis |
| Released | 2022 12 20; 2023 09 14 |
| Abstract | New 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. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
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. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 326092 |
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