Publication information

Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7607

Portable XRF spectrometry of surficial sediment samples in the region of East Arm, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

Kjarsgaard, B.A., Knight, R.D., Plourde, A.P., and Reynen A.M.G.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2014

doi:10.4095/293951 

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Recommended citation

Kjarsgaard, B.A., Knight, R.D., Plourde, A.P., and Reynen, A.M.G., 2014. Portable XRF spectrometry of surficial sediment samples in the region of East Arm, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7607. doi:10.4095/293951 

Contents

This report presents elemental concentrations of till (diamicton) samples collected in 2008 as part of a Mineral and Energy Resource Assessment (MERA) for the proposed Thaidene Nene National Park, located in the area surrounding and to the east of the East Arm of Great Slave Lake, NWT. pXRF data is compared with ‘conventional’ geochemistry data for the clay-silt size fraction (< 0.063 mm), determined by ICP-ES/MS analyses following each of lithium borate fusion, 4-acid, and aqua-regia digestion methods, plus new data obtained in this study for the < 2 mm size fraction (via lithium borate fusion and 4-acid digestion with ICP-ES/MS analysis). 

Directory structure

Readme.rtf
Licence_agreement.rtf
of_7607.pdf
Appendix A.xls
	Data for till samples including locations and geochemistry
Appendix B  
Bivariate plots, 4-acid versus fusion for a given grain size, and fusion or 4-acid versus grain size in .pdf format
Appendix C
	Bivariate plots, pXRF vs fusion or 4-acid for a given grain size in .pdf format. 
Appendix D
	Interpolated single element maps in .pdf format

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Author contact information

Bruce.Kjarsgaard@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0E8

Availability information

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