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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 8016

Chinkeh Formation, northeastern British Columbia: detrital zircon geochronology sample descriptions, methodology and data tables

W. Matthews, M. McMechan, F. Ferri, and B. Guest

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Matthews, W., McMechan, M., Ferri, F., and Guest, B., 2016.  Chinkeh Formation, northeastern British Columbia: detrital zircon geochronology sample descriptions, methodology and data tables; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8016, 1 .zip file. doi:10.4095/298756

Contents

Sandstone, shale and conglomerate of the Chinkeh Formation occur at the base of the Cretaceous section in the Liard Basin of northeastern British Columbia, southeastern Yukon and southwestern Northwest Territories.  The age of this unit and the degree of western provenance has been a source of debate.  This open file provides sample information, detrital zircon methodology and the complete filtered data tables for the suite of samples from the Chinkeh Formation.  These data document an Albian to latest Aptian age for the formation and a dominant recycled Ellesmerian provenance.

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Author contact information

William Matthews (wamatthe@ucalgary.ca) and Bernard Guest (bguest@ucalgary.ca),
Centre for Pure and Applied Tectonics and Thermochronology,
Department of Geosciences,
University of Calgary,
2500 University Drive N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta  T2N 1N4

Margot McMechan (margot.mcmechan@canada.ca),
Geological Survey of Canada,
3303 – 33rd Street N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada  T2L 2A7
Phone: (403) 292-7154

Filippo Ferri (Fil.ferri@gov.bc.ca),
Petroleum Geoscience Section,
Tenure and Geoscience Branch,
Ministry of Natural Gas Development,
Victoria, British Columbia, V9A 5N7

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