| Title | Surficial geology, Amaruq deposit area, Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, NTS 66-H southeast |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Boulianne-Verschelden, N; De Bronac de Vazelhes, V; McMartin, I ; Beaudoin, G |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 441, 2022, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/329418  Open Access |
| Links | Surficial geology map collection
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| Links | Collection de données de géologie de surface
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| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Maps | 1 map |
| Map Info. | surficial geology, sediments, landforms, features, 1:50,000 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 14 (NAD83) |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | NRCan photo(s) in this
publication |
| Related | This publication is related to Cartographie du Quaternaire
dans la région du gisement Amaruq, Nunavut |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; 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); xls (Microsoft® Excel® 2010) |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 66H/01; 66H/02; 66H/03; 66H/06; 66H/07; 66H/08 |
| Area | Kivalliq Region |
| Lat/Long WENS | -97.2500 -96.0000 65.5000 65.1667 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; geochronology; economic geology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; postglacial deposits; glacial deposits; glacial landforms; glacial features; glacial
erosion; tills; moraines; meltwater channels; paleocurrents; glacial lakes; proglacial lakes; glacial striations; boulders; gravels; sands; silts; clays; permafrost; ground ice; periglacial features; ice-wedge polygons; frost action; depositional
environment; sediment reworking; glacial history; glaciation; ice flow; deglaciation; mines; Amaruq Deposit; Tyrrell Sea; Keewatin Ice Divide; alluvial sediments; glaciolacustrine sediments; glaciolacustrine deltaic sediments; esker sediments;
glaciolacustrine veneer; glaciofluvial sediments; glaciofluvial hummocky sediments; glaciofluvial veneer; hummocky tills; till veneer; till blanket; moraine ridges; subglacial meltwater corridors; geological contacts; reworked sediments; beach
crests; esker ridges; drumlinoid ridges; crag-and-tail ridges; ice-flow directions; station locations, ground observation; sample locations; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary |
| Illustrations | location maps; index maps; photographs |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Rae Province, Synthesis of glacial history |
| Released | 2022 02 15 |
| Abstract | The Amaruq deposit map area is a glacial landscape dominated by till deposits (72% of map area) forming transverse ridges, hummocky moraine, or plains of varying thickness, occasionally streamlined.
Glacial lake sediments cover about 18% of the map area and form thick to thin deposits covering the till. They occur predominantly in lowlands and below approximately 140 m a.s.l., which is the elevation of the highest raised beaches located in the
western part of the map area. Some of the glacial lake sediments could have been deposited in a marine environment during high sea levels following deglaciation. Sand and gravel deposits occur in subglacial meltwater corridors forming terraces, esker
ridges, and small hummocks, or in proglacial outwash plains. The effects of meltwater at the base of the glacier or by currents and waves in proglacial lake and/or marine basins have resulted in winnowing of fine particles, reworking of sediments,
and surface boulder concentrations. Streamlined till landforms and striations indicate that ice flow was dominantly to the north-northwest. This predominant flow was locally succeeded by northwest and west-northwest ice flows as indicated by
crosscutting striations. A late deglacial ice-flow direction converging towards a major esker tunnel is observed east of the Amaruq deposit. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The geology map of the Amaruq gold deposit area (NTS 66-H south-east) in Nunavut identifies glacial, glaciolacustrine and glaciofluvial surficial
sediments and landforms deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last glaciation. The surficial geology is based on the interpretation of satellite images and aerial photos, and supported by fieldwork. The mapping was completed as part of an
MSc thesis research project within the NSERC-Agnico Eagle Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Exploration at Université Laval. The Geological Survey of Canada is involved in co-supervising the student within the GEM-2 Glacial Synthesis Rae Project
area with the objective of providing new geological knowledge and improving our understanding of the distribution, nature and glacial history of surficial materials in the Rae Geological Province. The map will support informed decision making for
resource development and land use. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 329418 |
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