Five successions of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks ranging from pre-Upper Devonian to Lower Mississippian characterize the Yukon-Tanana Terrane in the Livingstone Creek area. The area's structural style is dominated by a transposition foliation and includes intrusions from at least five plutonic suites ranging from Late Devonian to Late Cretaceous. This dataset, published by the Government of Yukon, reports two new mineral showings and suggests potential for volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralization.
Use Cases
- Correlating rock strata based on described metasedimentary and metavolcanic successions.
- Analyzing structural deformation based on descriptions of transposition foliation and fault zones.
- Assessing mineral potential based on reported Pb-Ag vein and pyrrhotite skarn showings.
- Modeling plutonic intrusion history based on suites ranging from Late Devonian to Late Cretaceous.
Strengths
- Describes five distinct rock successions with age ranges from pre-Upper Devonian to Lower Mississippian.
- Identifies at least five plutonic suites intruding the terrane.
- Reports two new mineral showings: a Pb-Ag vein occurrence and a pyrrhotite skarn.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific Livingstone Creek area.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Yukon
- Time Range
- Rock ages range from pre-Upper Devonian to Late Cretaceous.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 16:12:09.121426; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Livingstone Creek area (NTS 105E/8), south-central Yukon.