Petrology of the Fort Smith - Great Slave Lake radiometric high near Pilot Lake, N.W.T.

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Burwash, R. A., Cape, D. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1981
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Great Slave Lake; Fort Smith; Pilot Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e81-081; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e81-081

Near Pilot Lake, the east boundary of the Fort Smith – Great Slave Lake radiometric high coincides with the contact of a well-foliated, porphyroblastic microcline–plagioclase–quartz-garnet–biotite gneiss 1 (Pilot Lake Gneiss) with a hybrid assemblage of quartzite, mica schist, garnet–cordierite gnei...