Regions: North Slave Region, South Slave Region
| Principal Investigator: | Ootes, Luke (5) |
| Licence Number: | 15612 |
| Organization: | Northwest Territories Geoscience Office |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2015
2014
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| Issued: | Feb 16, 2015 |
Objective(s): To study select bedrock exposures of sedimentary rocks and determine their age and provenance (source).
Project Description: The goal of this research is to study select bedrock exposures of sedimentary rocks and determine their age and provenance (source). This is completed by walking and looking/documenting rocks (mapping) and in some places collecting fist-sized rocks samples with a small hammer. These samples are processed at the University of Alberta. To test the hypothesis, a combination of field observations by detailed mapping of bedrock, and collecting hand sample size pieces of selected rock units will then be analyzed in a laboratory to determine the age of the rock and its source. The ongoing study will be featured as talks and posters at the Annual NWT Geoscience Forum in Yellowknife. Results and project progress will be communicated through the NWT Geoscience Office's Outreach Geologist to local communities. Community visit to report results can be arranged during the course of the project, at the request of the community. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from July 3, 2015 to July 24, 2015.
