Steenkamp, H M and Wodicka, N and Weller, Owen M. and Kendrick, J (2016) Overview of bedrock mapping in the northern and western parts of the Tehery Lake-Wager Bay area, western Hudson Bay, Nunavut. Summary of Activities, 2016. pp. 27-40. ISSN 2291-1235, on-line 2291-1243
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Abstract
Bedrock-geology mapping was conducted in the summer of 2016 in the Tehery Lake–Wager Bay area on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay, Nunavut, as part of a multiyear, multidisciplinary mapping campaign led by the Geological Survey of Canada, through Phase 2 of the Geo-mapping for Energy a nd Minerals program (GEM-2), and the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office. Fieldwork resulted in the identification and spatial constraint of rock units in the northern and western parts of the study area, which were sampled for geochemical, g eochronological and petrographic analysis, as well as to as- sess their economic potential. Mapping has revealed the presence of a large granulite-facies metamorphic domain in the southern part of the study area; the possibility of two different supracrustal rock sequences; the western continuations of the Chesterfield fault zone and Wager shear zone; and generally high, but locally variable, peak metamorphic conditions across the study area. Further analytical work is required to fully characterize rock units, compare and correlate them with other well-studied units, and determine the geological history and economic potential of the Tehery Lake–Wager Bay area.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | 05 - Petrology - Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies |
| Divisions: | 05 - Petrology - Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies 07 - Gold Open Access |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Summary of Activities |
| Volume: | 2016 |
| Page Range: | pp. 27-40 |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Humbert |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2017 11:31 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2017 16:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/id/eprint/3851 |
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