Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area, Sahtu Settlement Area, Dehcho Region, North Slave Region, South Slave Region
Tags: water sampling, geochemistry, sediment transport, rock chemistry
| Principal Investigator: | Gariepy, Clement (1) |
| Licence Number: | 12888 |
| Organization: | Research Centre in Isotope Geochemistry & Geochronology GEOTOP |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1996
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| Issued: | Aug 16, 1996 |
| Project Team: | Jerome Gaillardet, Bernard Dupre |
Objective(s): Sampling river water, such as that from the Mackenzie, the Peel, the Athabasca, the Slave, etc. Collection of about 60-80 liters of water and then filtering it. Interested in the particles carried out by the river (thus only the material remaining on the filters). This is part of a worldwide project, involving the Amazon, the Congo, the Yang-Tsie-Kiang, etc...rivers. The goal is to determine, through geochemical analyses, the composition of their drainage basins and make inferences about the chemical composition of the rocks within their drainage basins.
Project Description: All transportation will be done using rental vehicles (usually locally). Water sampling will be done out of rental boats (typically zodiac-type) and equipment (light pumps manually operated); water will be filtered on site, particles in suspension will be carried back for analysis. This will typically be 50-100 milligrams. Itinerary includes: Inuvik, Ft. Providence, Yelllowknife.
