Basement geology beneath the northeast Thelon Basin, Nunavut: insights from integrating new gravity, magnetic and geological data

• Published in: Geophysical Prospecting
• Main Authors: Tschirhart, V., Jefferson, C.W., Morris, W.A.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Marjorie Hills; Nunavut; Kivalliq
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12430; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2478.12430; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2478.12430

ABSTRACT Current models for unconformity‐associated uranium deposits predict fluid flow and ore deposition along reactivated faults in >1.76 Ga basement beneath Mesoproterozoic siliciclastic basins. In frontier regions such as the Thelon Basin in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, little is known ab...