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Terranes

The framework of the Cordilleran orogen of northwestern North America is commonly depicted as a 'collage' of terranes - crustal blocks containing records of a variety of geodynamic environments including continental fragments, pieces of island arc crust and oceanic crust. The series of maps available here are derived from a GIS compilation of terranes based on the map first published by Colpron et al. (2007) and more recently revised by Nelson et al. (2013). These maps are presented here in digital formats including ArcGIS file geodatabase (.gdb), shapefiles (.shp and related files), Google Earth (.kmz), as well as graphic files (.pdf). The GIS data includes terrane polygons and selected major Late Cretaceous and Tertiary strike-slip faults. Graphic PDF files derived from the GIS compilation were prepared for the Northern Cordillera (Alaska, Yukon and BC), the Canadian Cordillera (BC and Yukon), Yukon, and British Columbia. These maps are intended for page-size display (~1:5,000,000 and smaller). Polygons are accurate to ~1 km for Yukon and BC, ~5 km for Alaska. More detailed geological data are available from both BCGC, USGS and YGS websites. Descriptions of the terranes, their tectonic evolution and metallogeny can be found in Colpron et al. (2007), Nelson and Colpron (2007), Colpron and Nelson (2009), Nelson et al. (2013) and references therein. The terrane map project is a collaborative effort of the BC Geological Survey and the Yukon Geological Survey. Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data collection. For more information: geomatics.help@yukon.ca

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Date ( RI_367 )
2023-10-12
Date ( RI_366 )
2023-10-12
RI_414
  Government of Yukon; Government of Yukon; Geomatics Yukon - ( )
https://open.yukon.ca/data/
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown; inconnu RI_543
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • geology
  • yukon territory
  • earth science
  • yukon
  • bedrock geology
  • terrane
  • canada
  • tectonostratigraphic terrane
  • geoyukon
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Yukon (https://open.yukon.ca/open-government-licence-yukon)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
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RI_414
  Government of Yukon; Government of Yukon; Geomatics Yukon - ( )
https://open.yukon.ca/data/
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Terranes ( HTTPS )

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Terranes ( HTTPS )

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Terranes ( HTTPS )

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Metadata language
eng; CAN
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utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-07-29
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_414
  Government of Yukon; Government of Yukon; Geomatics Yukon - ( )
https://open.yukon.ca/data/
 
 

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