Yukon Geological Survey 2022 Research Highlights

Yukon Geological Survey's 2022 overview marks the organization's 30th anniversary and highlights a multi-disciplinary focus on bedrock geology, tectonics, and glacial history. The report details the discovery and recovery of a mummified baby woolly mammoth (Nun Cho Ga) in June on Upper Eureka Creek. This text-based overview is published by the Government of Yukon and accompanied by detailed technical papers.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional geological research trends based on the summary of 2022 project highlights
• Studying paleontological discovery contexts based on the documented mammoth recovery and site mapping
• Tracking the evolution of a geological survey organization based on its 30-year anniversary history

Strengths

• Report includes detailed technical papers for deeper investigation of highlighted projects
• Content covers multiple geoscience disciplines including bedrock geology, regional tectonics, and glacial history
• Documentation includes a culturally and scientifically significant paleontological discovery event

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Government of Yukon

Collection Method

Research summary and report compilation

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 16:02:29.719808; freshness should be verified

Geography

Yukon, Canada