The Geology and Geochronology of the Echo Bay Area, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Robinson, B. W., Morton, R. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1972
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Northwest Territories; Canada; Great Bear Lake; Echo Bay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e72-013; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e72-013

In the Echo Bay region of Great Bear Lake the Echo Bay Group has been intruded by Precambrian granites, granodiorites, aplites, and diabases. This group, which has undergone zeolite-facies regional metamorphism, has a lower dominantly sedimentary-pyroclastic sequence (about 1320 m thick) and an uppe...