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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 8299

Geochemistry of glacial-derived sediment from the Gads Hill Moraine, Southern Ontario.

R.D. Knight, A.F. Bajc, M.J. Moroz, and H.A.J. Russell

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2018

Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.4095/308207

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Knight, R.D., Bajc, A.F., Moroz, M.J., and Russell, H.A.J., 2018. Geochemistry of glacially derived sediment from the Gads Hill Moraine area, southwestern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8299, 1 .zip file. https://doi.org/10.4095/308207

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Contents

The objective of this Open File is to publish the geochemical analyses of 40 samples obtained from the Gads Hill borehole (10-GH-01) located southwest of Waterloo, Ontario. Data was collected using a portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer. The pXRF data are interpreted using single element trends from the base to the top of the boreholes. Twenty elements (Al, As, Ba, Ca, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Ni, Pb, Rb, S, Si, Sr, Th, Ti, V, Zn, and Zr)  were detected in sufficient quantities to produce results using the pXRF spectrometer. Results are presented numerically and graphically in Appendix A.

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of_8299_readme.rtf
of_8299.pdf

Appendix A 

Gads Hill - Chemostratigraphy
The Adobe Acrobat® .pdf file graphically displays grain size and chemostratigraphic data for both soil and mining modes of the pXRF data set for borehole GH-10-01. 

GH-10-01 - pXRF combined results.xlsx
The Microsoft Excel® workbook contains two worksheets with data for sample analyses from the 10-GH-01 borehole and standard reference materials used for data quality control. The first worksheet is for data collected in soil mode and the second is for data collected in mining mode.

	GH-10-01 - pXRF results - Mining Mode.csv
The comma separated values file contains data for sample analyses from the 10-GH-01 borehole and standard reference materials used for data quality control in mining mode.

GH-10-01 - pXRF results - Soil Mode.csv
The comma separated values file contains data for sample analyses from the 10-GH-01 borehole and standard reference materials used for data quality control in soil mode.

pXRF Spectrometry column headings
Microsoft Word® file defining the column headings used in the .xlsx and .csv files.

Author contact information

R. Knight (ross.knight@canada.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0E8

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