Publication information
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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7106

An assessment of surficial geology, massive ice, and ground ice, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Northwest Territories: application to the proposed Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk all-weather highway.

Smith, I.R. and Duong, L.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2012

doi:10.4095/292017

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Recommended citation
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Smith, I.R. and Duong, L., 2012. An assessment of surficial geology, massive ice, and ground ice, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Northwest Territories: application to the proposed Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk all-weather highway; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7106. doi:10.4095/292017

Contents
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This report reviews recent compilations of seismic shothole drillers’ litholog records and related research that pertain to issues of surficial geology, retrogressive thaw slumps, massive ice, and ground ice in the region of the proposed Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk all-weather highway. It serves to provide background knowledge and analyses of conditions relevant to the environmental review, design, construction, and sustainability of this significant and important proposed infrastructure project. Presented as both a regional GIS and thematic figures and tables focused on the Highway corridor, this report includes information previously published in GSC Open File reports, maps, and papers, including two previously available paper maps that have been digitally rendered (Rampton, 1987; Heginbottom and Radburn, 1992). It also presents new analyses of the lithostratigraphic associations between surficial geology and retrogressive thaw slumps, massive ice and ground ice by making use of expansive databases of seismic shothole drillers’ log records (Côté et al., 2003; Smith, 2011).

Directory structure:

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   \documentation  - Contains license agreement for ESRI® ArcReader™ v. 10 in 				pdf file format 
\data		        - Data files designed for GIS analysis and querying
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\tables		  - Directory of tables referred to in OF7106.pdf

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Data Directory (\data)
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Contains data directories in raster and shapefile formats for the GIS data files. The GIS map feature class names and attributes are explained in the \doc\html\METHODOLOGY.HTM file.

Document Directory (\doc)
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System Requirements
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Author contact information
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Dr. I. Rod Smith (rodsmith@NRCan.gc.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
3303-33rd Street N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
T2L 2A7

Availability information
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This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca).