| Title | Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, British Columbia: expanded bedrock map including Cracked Mountain, north Lillooet Ridge, and west Mount Meager |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Harris, M; Russell, J K; Muhammad, M; Williams-Jones, G |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8881, 2022, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/329886  Open Access |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; tif; gdb (ESRI® ArcExplorer(TM) / ArcReader(TM)); xlsx (Microsoft® Excel®); jpg; shp (ESRI® ArcExplorer(TM) / ArcReader(TM)) |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 92J/11; 92J/12 |
| Area | Mount Meager |
| Lat/Long WENS | -123.6664 -123.3667 50.7481 50.5242 |
| Subjects | regional geology; geochronology; surficial geology/geomorphology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Health and Safety; volcanology; volcanoes; volcanic features; bedrock geology;
lithology; igneous rocks; volcanic rocks; rhyodacites; lava flows; volcanic ash; basalts; breccias, volcanic; tuffs; andesites; dacites; rhyolites; intrusive rocks; granodiorites; metamorphic rocks; schists; amphibolites; gneisses; metasedimentary
rocks; marbles; landslides; glacial deposits; tills; radiometric dating; argon argon dates; Garibaldi Volcanic Belt; Mount Meager Volcanic Complex; Coast Plutonic Complex; Cascade Volcanic Arc; Cracked Mountain Assemblage; Mosaic Assemblage; East
Lillooet Ridge Volcanic Assemblage; West Lillooet Ridge Volcanic Assemblage; Natural hazards; geological contacts; alluvial sediments; colluvial and mass-wasting deposits; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Tertiary; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Jurassic;
Triassic |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; tables; lithologic sections |
| Program | Energy Geoscience
Geothermal Energy |
| Released | 2022 05 02 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Mount Meager, of southwestern British Columbia, is Canada's largest and most active volcano. The area surrounding Meager also hosts numerous young
volcanic deposits, and collectively this region is known as the Mount Meager volcanic complex (MMVC). Through renewable energy initiatives, the Canadian government has funded research aimed at assessing the geothermal potential of the MMVC. Here, we
present the results of the MMVC bedrock mapping component of the geothermal initiative comprising four new geologic maps: 1) A regional MMVC map that shows the contact locations of volcanic rocks with the underlying basement rocks; 2) A detailed map
of the western MMVC; 3) A detailed map and volcanic stratigraphy of a newly identified volcano, Cracked Mountain, in the southwestern MMVC; and 4) A detailed map of the Lillooet Ridge in the northern MMVC. Additionally, this study presents eleven new
eruptive ages for volcanic deposits, which bolsters the understanding of eruptive frequency in this region of interest. Overall, this contribution will be used to generate subsurface models addressing the geothermal potential of the MMVC. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 329886 |
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