The intracratonic Paleoproterozoic Forward orogeny, and implications for regional correlations, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Cook, D. G., MacLean, B. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1995
• Subjects: Canada; Dismal Lakes; Hornby Bay; Northwest Territories; Ogilvie; Ogilvie Mountains; Wernecke; Coppermine River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e95-152; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e95-152

Reflection seismic data from the Colville Hills and Anderson Plain document an intracratonic compressional event, herein named the Forward orogeny, which affected strata considered equivalent to the >1663 Ma Hornby Bay Group outcropping on Coppermine Homocline. Forward orogeny structures were pen...