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ORIGINATOR: Margot McMechan

PUBLICATION_DATE: 2011

TITLE: Geology, Mount Assiniboine, Alberta–British Columbia

GEOSPATIAL_PRESENTATION_FORM: vector digital data

SERIES_NAME: Canadian Geoscience Map

ISSUE_IDENTIFICATION: 13

PUBLICATION_PLACE: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

PUBLISHER: Geological Survey of Canada

OTHER_CITATION_DETAILS: McMechan, M.E. and Leech, G.B., 2011. Geology, Mount Assiniboine, Alberta–British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 13, scale 1:50 000. doi:10.4025/287204

Abstract: Mount Assiniboine map area (NTS 82-J/13, 1:50 000 scale) straddles portions of the Front Ranges, Main Ranges,
and Western Ranges subdivisions of the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, from northeast to extreme southwest. Thrusts
carrying folded Ordovician, Devonian, and Mississippian carbonate and clastic strata characterize the Front Ranges, where Upper Devonian Fairholme Group strata change facies from reef to basinal deposits. At the Middle and Upper Cambrian
Kickinghorse Rim, an abrupt westward facies change from competent platform and ramp carbonate units to thick basinal
strata, divides the Main Ranges into eastern broadly folded and western penetratively deformed parts. Tight and overturned northeast-facing folds occur immediately west of the Kickinghorse Rim. Boulders and blocks shed from the rim
are spectacularly exposed near Indian Peak. Hydrothermal alteration localized at the rim produced magnesite ore near Mount Brussilof. Folded Lower to Upper Ordovician strata cut by steep to overturned thrusts characterize the Western Ranges.

PURPOSE: To produce seamless digital maps of part of southeastern Cordillera to assist in the understanding of mineral deposit systems and the exploration of mineral resources.

BEGINNING_DATE: April 1, 2007

ENDING_DATE: March 31, 2010

PROGRESS: complete

WEST_BOUNDING_COORDINATE: -116

EAST_BOUNDING_COORDINATE: -115.5

NORTH_BOUNDING_COORDINATE: 51.0

SOUTH_BOUNDING_COORDINATE: 50.75

THEME_KEYWORD: geology

THEME_KEYWORD_THESAURUS: bedrock geology, geological map, geology, Geographic Information System, geospatial geological information, GIS map

PLACE_KEYWORD: Mount Assiniboine

PLACE_KEYWORD_THESAURUS: foothills, front ranges, Rocky Mountain Trench, western ranges, western main ranges, eastern main ranges, Rocky Mountains, Mitchell Fault, Simpson Pass Thrust, Fatigue Thrust, Nublet Thrust, Lachine Syncline, Daer Anticline, Mount Brussilof Mine, Alberta, British Columbia

USE_CONSTRAINTS: ©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2011

SCI_CONTENT_CONTACT: M.E. McMechan

SCI_CONTENT_CONTACT_ORG: Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary

SCI_CONTENT_ADDRESS_TYPE: mailing and physical

SCI_CONTENT_ADDRESS: 3303 - 33rd St. NW

SCI_CONTENT_CITY: Calgary

SCI_CONTENT_PROVINCE: Alberta

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SCI_CONTENT_COUNTRY: Canada

SCI_CONTENT_VOICE_TELEPHONE: 403 292-7000

SCI_CONTENT_FAX_TELEPHONE: 403 292-5377

SCI_CONTENT_EMAIL_ADDRESS: Margot.McMechan@NRCan.gc.ca

BROWSE_GRA_FILE_NAME: CGM_0013.PMF

BROWSE_GRA_FILE_DESCRIPTION: A GIS map

BROWSE_GRA_FILE_TYPE: PMF

DISTRIBUTOR: GSC Bookstore

CONTACT_ORGANIZATION: Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

ADDRESS_TYPE: mailing and physical

ADDRESS: 615 Booth St.

CITY: Ottawa

PROVINCE: Ontario

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COUNTRY: Canada

CONTACT_VOICE_TELEPHONE: 613 995-4342

CONTACT_FAX_TELEPHONE: 613 943-0646

CONTACT_EMAIL_ADDRESS: gscbookstore@NRCan.gc.ca

METADATA_DATE: November, 2010

METADATA_CONTACT_POSITION: Head Geoinformatics

METADATA_ADDRESS_TYPE: mailing and physical

METADATA_ADDRESS: 3303 - 33rd St. NW

METADATA_CITY: Calgary

METADATA_PROVINCE: Alberta

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METADATA_CONTACT_VOICE_TEL: 403 292-7000

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METADATA_CONTACT_EMAIL_ADDRESS: datainfo@NRCan.gc.ca

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