| Title | Surficial geology, Sulphur Bay, Western Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, NTS 85-G |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Paulen, R C ;
Smith, I R |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 443, 2022, 10 pages (1 sheet), https://doi.org/10.4095/330073  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, 1:125,000 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 11 (NAD83) |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | NRCan photo(s) in this
publication |
| Related | This publication is related to the following publications |
| 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 | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 85G |
| Area | Sulphur Bay; Great Slave Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -116.0000 -114.0000 62.0000 61.0000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; economic geology; mineralogy; geochemistry; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; postglacial deposits; organic deposits; dunes; glacial deposits; glacial
landforms; glacial features; glacial lakes; tills; moraines; lag deposits; gravels; sands; silts; clays; boulders; kettles; meltwater channels; paleocurrents; glacial flutings; glacial erosion; abrasion; glacial history; glaciation; Wisconsinian
Glacial Stage; ice flow; deglaciation; ice retreat; isostatic rebound; permafrost; ground ice; periglacial features; karst topography; bedrock topography; subsidence; iceberg gouging; scour marks; till samples; pebble lithology; mineral occurrences;
mineral associations; pyrope; diopside; depositional environment; sedimentary structures; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Glacial Lake McConnell; Lonely Bay Formation; Drybones Bay Kimberlite; Mud Lake Kimberlite; fen deposits; bog deposits; eolian sediments;
alluvial sediments; alluvial floodplain sediments; lacustrine sediments; lacustrine beach sediments; lacustrine nearshore sediments; glaciolacustrine sediments; glaciolacustrine beach sediments; glaciolacustrine littoral sediments; glaciolacustrine
nearshore sediments; glaciolacustrine veneer; glaciofluvial sediments; glaciofluvial outwash fan sediments; glaciofluvial hummocky sediments; esker sediments; moraine complexes; ridged tills, moraine; streamlined tills; till veneer; till blanket;
geological contacts; thermokarst depressions; dune crests; terrace scarps; beach crests; moraine ridges; esker ridges; buried drumlinoid ridges; drumlinoid ridges; crag-and-tail ridges; ice-flow directions; outcrops; station locations, remote
observation; station locations, ground observation; sample locations; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary |
| Illustrations | location maps; index maps; photographs; photomicrographs |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Mackenzie Corridor, Southern Mackenzie Surficial Mapping |
| Program | Polar Continental Shelf Program
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| Released | 2022 08 25 |
| Abstract | The Sulphur Bay map sheet is a low-relief terrain underlain by lower- to middle-Devonian dolostone and limestone. A thin (<4 m thick) Laurentide Ice Sheet-derived glacial sediment cover drapes most of
the landscape, except for bedrock outcrops exposed near Great Slave Lake. Relict glacial landforms record an older northwest ice flow across the region. These are strongly overprinted by subsequent west-southwest-oriented flutings and mega-scale
glacial lineations formed during deglaciation. As ice retreated, the entire map area became inundated by glacial Lake McConnell and then subsequently by the expanded postglacial Great Slave Lake. This produced a discontinuous, coarse winnowed surface
lag over higher terrain and thin sheets of glaciolacustrine nearshore sands over lower-lying regions. Abundant iceberg furrows occur throughout the map area. Bogs and fens have formed over much of the landscape and display extensive thermokarst.
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| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Surficial geology map for western region adjacent to Great Slave Lake, which was mapped as part of the GEM2 Southern Mackenzie Surficial Activity. This
map will provide detailed information on the surficial materials that were deposited in the region, which can be used for information planning, mineral exploration and future climate change scientific studies (e.g., permafrost). |
| GEOSCAN ID | 330073 |
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