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A Comparison of Different Remotely Sensed Data for Classifying Bedrock Types in Canada’s Arctic: Application of the Robust Classification Method and Random Forests

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

A virtual geological field trip across Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Age and provenances of sandstones from the Riphean Priozersk and Salmi formations in the eastern Pasha-Ladoga basin (southern margin of the Baltic Shield)

scientific article published in 2011

Age of the Cap Mountain (Northwest Territories) Proterozoic section, sequence B, based on detrital zircon ages

scientific article published in 1998

Age, provenance, and regional correlation of the Athabasca Group, Saskatchewan and Alberta, constrained by igneous and detrital zircon geochronology

scientific article published in 2007

Alluvial, eolian and lacustrine sedimentology of a Paleoproterozoic half-graben, Baker Lake Basin, Nunavut, Canada

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Anatomy of a large-scale braid-plain quartzarenite from the Neoproterozoic Shaler Group, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

scientific article published in December 1992

Architecture of a Neoproterozoic intracratonic carbonate ramp succession: Wynniatt Formation, Amundsen Basin, Arctic Canada

scientific article published in January 2014

Ar‐Ar and U‐Pb Geochronology of a Late Paleoproterozoic Rift Basin: Support for a Genetic Link with Hudsonian Orogenesis, Western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada

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Author Correction: Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Bedrock and surficial geology of northeast Minto Inlier, Victoria Island

scientific article published in 1994

Bedrock and surficial geology, Alabaster Lake, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1997

Bedrock and surficial geology, Glenelg Bay, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1994

Bedrock and surficial geology, Kilian Lake, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1995

Bedrock and surficial geology, Kimiksana Lake, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1997

Bedrock and surficial geology, Muskox Lake, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1995

Bedrock and surficial geology, Reynolds Point, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1995

Bedrock and surficial geology, Shaler Mountains, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1997

Bedrock and surficial geology, Washington Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1994

Bedrock and surficial geology, Wynniatt Bay, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1998

Bedrock and surficial geology, Young Inlet, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1997

Bedrock geology of the Dismal Lakes-lower Coppermine River area, Nunavut and Northwest Territories: GEM-2 Coppermine River Transect, report of activities 2017-2018

scientific article published in 2018

Bedrock geology, Brock River, Northwest Territories-Nunavut, NTS 97-D

scientific article published in 2019

Bedrock geology, Erly Lake, Northwest Territories-Nuvanut, NTS 97-A

scientific article published in 2019

Bedrock geology, central Rae Craton and eastern Queen Maud Block, western Churchill Province, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2018

Behavior of major and trace elements (including REE) during Paleoproterozoic pedogenesis and diagenetic alteration of an Archean granite near Ville Marie, Québec, Canada

scientific article published in July 2000

Chemostratigraphy of the Shaler Supergroup, Victoria Island, NW Canada: A record of ocean composition prior to the Cryogenian glaciations

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Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

scholarly article

Constraining the depositional history of the Neoproterozoic Shaler Supergroup, Amundsen Basin, NW Canada: Rhenium-osmium dating of black shales from the Wynniatt and Boot Inlet Formations

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Detrital Zircon Analysis of the Sedimentary Record

scholarly article

Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Provenance of the Paleoproterozoic Huron (∼2.4–2.2 Ga) and Animikie (∼2.2–1.8 Ga) Basins, Southern Superior Province

scientific article published in November 2013

Detrital zircon ages from two wells in the Northwest Territories: implications for the correlation and provenance of Proterozoic subsurface strata

scientific article published in 1996

Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Husky Creek Formation: a fluvial sandstone recording the waning stages of one of Earth's largest magmatic episodes

scientific article published in July 2023

Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Torridonian, NW Scotland

scientific article published in January 2001

Detrital zircon geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Hurwitz and Kiyuk groups, western Churchill Province, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2005

Did plate tectonics shutdown in the Palaeoproterozoic? A view from the Siderian geologic record

scientific article published in November 2014

Discussion: A unifying model for the Torridon Group (early Neoproterozoic), NW Scotland: Product of post-Grenvillian extensional collapse, by GE Williams and J Foden

scientific article published in February 2012

Diverse organic-walled fossils, including “possible dinoflagellates,” from the early Neoproterozoic of arctic Canada

scientific article published in 1998

Early Neoproterozoic strata (Sequence B) of mainland northern Canada and Victoria and Banks islands: a contribution to the Geological Atlas of the Northern Canadian Mainland Sedimentary Basin

scientific article published in 2008

Early Paleoproterozoic supracrustal assemblages of the Rae domain, Nunavut, Canada: Intracratonic basin development during supercontinent break-up and assembly

scientific article published in August 2010

Early Paleozoic rifting and reactivation of a passive-margin rift: Insights from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group, Ottawa graben

scholarly article

Early Paleozoic rifting and reactivation of a passive-margin rift: Insights from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group, Ottawa graben: Reply

scholarly article

Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

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Earth history. Low mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

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Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Environmental and economic impact of oxide-sulphide gossans, Northwest Territories and Nunavut

scientific article published in 2014

Environmental impact of gossans revealed by orientation surveys for base metals in the Canadian Arctic Islands

scientific article published in 2015

Evaporite deposition in the mid-Neoproterozoic as a driver for changes in seawater chemistry and the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Exploring for lead and zinc using indicator minerals with stream silt and water geochemistry in the Canadian arctic islands: an example from Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Exploring for lead and zinc using indicator minerals with stream silt and water geochemistry in the Canadian arctic islands: an example from Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2017

Fault-mediated melt ascent in a Neoproterozoic continental flood basalt province, the Franklin sills, Victoria Island, Canada

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Field contributions to thematic studies related to the kaminak greenstone belt, Kivalliq region, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1998

Fluorapatite in the Paleoproterozoic Thelon Basin: Structural-stratigraphic context, in situ ion microprobe U-Pb ages, and fluid-flow history

scientific article published on 21 January 2011

Fluvial floodplains prior to greening of the continents: Stratigraphic record, geodynamic setting, and modern analogues

scientific article published in October 2018

Formation and Diagenesis of a Sub-Huronian Saprolith: Comparison with a Modern Weathering Profile

scientific article published in November 1990

Geochemical database of Franklin sills, Natkusiak Basalts and Shaler Supergroup rocks, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, and correlatives from Nunavut and the mainland

scientific article published in 2016

Geology of Elu Inlet and Melville Sound, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

scientific article published in 2017

Geology of the Kaminak greenstone belt from Padlei to Quartzite Lake, Kivalliq region, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1998

Geology, Boot Inlet, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Carr-Kaminak-Quartzite lakes area, Kivalliq region, District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1998

Geology, Diamond Jenness Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2014

Geology, Duke of York Inlier, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1997

Geology, Heninga Lake - Kogtok River area, Kivalliq region, District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1998

Geology, Iglulik, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Imaiqtaqtuq, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Kangiryuaqtihuk / Minto Inlet, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2014

Geology, Nalluryuaq, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Qikigtalik, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Qinnguk, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2014

Geology, Qiqittiivik, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Geology, Qulliq, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Schultz Lake, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2004

Geology, Takiyuaqattak, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Geology, Ulukhaktok, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Uqpilik, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, Winter Cove Bay, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, northern Wellington Inlier, Washburn Lake area, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2002

Geology, simplified tectonic assemblage map of the Canadian Arctic Islands, Northwest Territories - Nunavut

scientific article published in 2016

Geology, tectonic assemblage map of Aulavik, Banks Island and northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, tectonic assemblage map of Aulavik, Banks Island and northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Geology, tectonic assemblage map of Hadley Bay, Victoria and Prince of Wales islands, Nunavut - Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Geology, tectonic assemblage map of Hadley Bay, Victoria and Prince of Wales islands, Nunavut - Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Geology, tectonic assemblage map of the Cambridge Bay area, southeastern Victoria Island, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2013

Geology, tectonic assemblage map of the Ulukhaktok area, southwestern Victoria Island, Nunavut - Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Geoscape Nunavut, the world beneath your feet

Google Earth© virtual geological field trip across Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada: Discoveries from the GEM-Victoria Island Project

scientific article published in 2013

Gossan Hill, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories: An analogue for mine waste reactions within permafrost and implication for the subsurface mineralogy of Mars

scientific article published in August 2014

High-resolution correlation between contrasting early Tonian carbonate successions in NW Canada highlights pronounced global carbon isotope variations

scientific article published in August 2020

Highly Variable Precambrian Fluvial Style Recorded In the Nelson Head Formation of Brock Inlier (Northwest Territories, Canada)

scientific article published in March 2016

Implications of selective predation on the macroevolution of eukaryotes: evidence from Arctic Canada

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Initiation and early evolution of the Franklin magmatic event preserved in the 720 Ma Natkusiak Formation, Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic

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Iodine proxy evidence for increased ocean oxygenation during the Bitter Springs Anomaly

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Late Mesoproterozoic rifting in Arctic Canada during Rodinia assembly: impactogens, trans-continental far-field stress and zinc mineralisation

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Late Paleoproterozoic terrane accretion in northwestern Canada and the case for circum-Columbian orogenesis

scientific article published in January 2013

Magnetic overprinting of the NeoproterozoicShaler Supergroup, Amundsen Basin,Northwest Territories, Canada during theFranklin magmatic episode

scientific article published in 1995

Map of mafic and ultramafic bodies related to the Franklin magmatic event, Minto Inlier, Victoria Island

scientific article published in 2005

Mesoproterozoic basins (Yukon, Canada) in the evolution of supercontinent Columbia

scientific article published in July 2023

Mineral resource assessment of the Neoproterozoic Franklin Igneous Events of Arctic Canada: comparison with the Permo-Triassic Noril'sk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE deposits of Russia

scientific article published in 1994

Morphometric convergence between Proterozoic and post-vegetation rivers

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Nature and timing of Franklin igneous events, Canada: Implications for a Late Proterozoic mantle plume and the break-up of Laurentia

scientific article published in March 1992

Nonglaciogenic deltaic deposits in the early Proterozoic Gowganda Formation, Cobalt Basin, Ontario

scientific article published in May 1988

Northeast Thelon region geoscience framework - new maps and data for uranium in Nunavut

scientific article published in 2011

Northeastern Thelon Basin Uranium Region: Geological compilation for geophysical consortium planning

scientific article published in 2011

Numerical constraints on degassing of metamorphic CO2 during the Neoproterozoic Franklin large igneous event, Arctic Canada

scientific article published on 6 March 2014

On the Statherian–Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia

scientific article published on 5 August 2022

Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): diversity and biostratigraphic significance

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Origin and hydrology of a large, intact Early Cambrian paleocave system and its role in overlying fluidisation structures, Arctic Canada

scientific article published in April 2017

Outcrop and remote predictive geology of the Amer Belt and basement beside and beneath the northeast Thelon Basin, in parts of NTS 66-A, B, C, F, G and H, Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2015

Pan-Continental River System Draining Grenville Orogen Recorded by U-Pb and Sm-Nd Geochronology of Neoproterozoic Quartzarenites and Mudrocks, Northwestern Canada

scientific article published in January 1997

Phanerozoic geology, northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Physical Volcanology and Sedimentology of Lower Dubawnt Group Strata, Dubawnt Lake, District of Keewatin, N.w.t

scientific article published in 1990

Pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia in the Mesoproterozoic

scientific article published in August 2014

Precambrian geology of northern Wellington Inlier, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1996

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

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Preliminary Report On the Geology of northwestern Dubawnt Lake area, District of Keewatin, N.W.T

scientific article published in 1989

Preliminary results of a magnetotelluric survey across the Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2016

Preliminary stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Glenelg Formation, lower Shaler Group and correlatives in the Amundsen Basin, Northwest Territories: relevance to sediment-hosted copper

scientific article published in 1992

Reappraisal of Precambrian sheet‐braided rivers: Evidence for 1·9 Ga deep‐channelled drainage

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

Reconnaissance geological mapping and thematic studies of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Reconnaissance geological mapping and thematic studies of the Elu Basin, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2015

Reconnaissance geological mapping, stratigraphy and magnetotelluric survey of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2015

Regional and global chemostratigraphic correlation of the early Neoproterozoic Shaler Supergroup, Victoria Island, Northwestern Canada

scientific article published in August 2010

Remote predictive mapping of bedrock geology using image classification of Landsat and SPOT data, western Minto Inlier, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

scientific article published on 14 June 2012

Report of activities for the geology and mineral potential of the Chantrey-Thelon area: GEM-2 Thelon tectonic zone, Montresor belt and Elu basin projects

scientific article published in 2015

Results of the U-Pb age of detrital zircons from Upper Proterozoic deposits of the eastern slope of the Anabar uplift

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Retro-arc extension and continental rifting: a model for the Paleoproterozoic Baker Lake Basin, Nunavut1Geological Survey of Canada Contribution 20100436

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Revised stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Paleoproterozoic Dubawnt Supergroup at the northern margin of Baker Lake Basin, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2000

Rifting of Columbia to form a deep-water siliciclastic to carbonate succession: The Mesoproterozoic Pinguicula Group of northern Yukon, Canada

scientific article published in June 2016

SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of Athabasca Group sandstones, northern Saskatchewan and Alberta

scientific article published in 2003

SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of enigmatic Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the central western Churchill Province, Nunavut; Radiogenic Age and Isotopic Studies: Report 15

scientific article published in 2002

Sampling Laurentia: Detrital zircon geochronology offers evidence for an extensive Neoproterozoic river system originating from the Grenville orogen

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Searching for Primary Evidence of Early Earth’s Atmospheric Evolution

scientific article published in 2022

Sedimentary architecture of a deeply karsted Precambrian - Cambrian unconformity, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Sedimentary evolution of the Riphean–Vendian basin of southeastern Siberia

Sedimentology and geochemistry of the firstbrook member of the Gowganda formation in the eastern Cobalt basin, Ontario

Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Theneoproterozoic Reynolds Point Formation, Minto Inlier, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1993

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Husky Creek Formation, lower Coppermine River region, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2019

Sequence and tectonostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic (Tonian-Cryogenian) Amundsen Basin prior to supercontinent (Rodinia) breakup

scientific article published in July 2015

Sequence stratigraphy and evolution of the Paleoproterozoic intracontinental Baker Lake and Thelon basins, western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada

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Sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Paleoproterozoic Baker Lake Group in the Baker Lake Basin, Thirty Mile Lake, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2000

Sequence stratigraphy, provenance, C and O isotopic composition, and correlation of the late Paleoproterozoic–early Mesoproterozoic upper Hornby Bay and lower Dismal Lakes groups, NWT and Nunavut

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Shale and pyrite Re-Os ages from the Hornby Bay and Amundsen basins provide new chronological markers for Mesoproterozoic stratigraphic successions of northern Canada

scientific article published in October 2020

Shale-hosted biota from the Dismal Lakes Group in Arctic Canada supports an early Mesoproterozoic diversification of eukaryotes

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Soft - Sediment Deformation Structures in Overburden Drill Core, Quebec

scientific article published in 1987

Some Advances in the Study of Proterozoic Sedimentary Basins of North America

scientific article published on 10 March 2004

Stratigraphic evidence for the Siberia-Laurentia connection and Early Cambrian rifting: Comments and Reply

scientific article published in 1997

Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Paleoproterozoic Baker Lake Group in the eastern Baker Lake basin, Northwest Territories (Nunavut)

scientific article published in 1999

Stratigraphy of the upper Nelson Head, Aok, Grassy Bay, and Boot Inlet formations in the Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories (NTS 97-A, D)

scientific article published in 2018

Strong evidence for a weakly oxygenated ocean-atmosphere system during the Proterozoic

scholarly article

Surficial geology, Qinnguk, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2012

Surficial geology, Qiqittiivik, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2012

Tectonic and Petrological Significance of Regional Lamproite - Minette Volcanism in the Thelon and Trans - Hudson Hinterlands, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1990

The Duke of York and related Neoproterozoic inliers of southern Victoria Island, Distict of Franklin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1996

The Paleoproterozoic Amer supergroup, Amer Fold Belt, Nunavut: stratigraphy, structure, correlations, and uranium metallogeny

scientific article published in 2023

The Paleoproterozoic Wernecke Supergroup of Yukon, Canada: Relationships to orogeny in northwestern Laurentia and basins in North America, East Australia, and China

scientific article published in November 2016

The Sedimentary Record of Mantle Plume Uplift Preceding Eruption of the Neoproterozoic Natkusiak Flood Basalt

scientific article published in May 1993

The Shaler Supergroup and revision of Neoproterozoic stratigraphy in Amundsen Basin, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 1994

The early Neoproterozoic sedimentary Succession B of northwestern Laurentia: Correlations and paleogeographic significance

scientific article published in April 1996

The sedimentary record of mantle-plume uplift

Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Trapped in a graben: deposition of Huronian gold-bearing conglomerates in a fault-influenced, valley-confined, fluvial system in the southern Cobalt Basin, Ontario, Canada

scientific article published in July 2023

Tuktut Nogait : rivières et roches

scientific article published in 2020

Tuktut Nogait: rivers and rocks

scientific article published in 2020

Two Neoarchean supercontinents revisited: The case for a Rae family of cratons

scientific article published in July 2013

U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the late Paleoproterozoic Dubawnt Supergroup: Linking sedimentation with tectonic reworking of the western Churchill Province, Canada

scientific article published in March 2007

U-Pb geochronology of the Shaler Supergroup, Victoria Island, northwest Canada: 2009-2013

scientific article published in 2013

Understanding the Precambrian: a collection of papers in celebration of the life and work of Grant McAdam Young (1937–2020)

scientific article published in July 2023

U–Pb geochronology of Riphean sandstone and gabbro from southeast Siberia and its bearing on the Laurentia–Siberia connection

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Volcano-sedimentary correlation and fault relationships in the Baker Lake Sub-basin, Thrity Mile Lake area, Nunavut

scientific article published in 2001

Volcanostratigraphy and significance of the southern lobe Natkusiak Formation flood basalts, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

scientific article published in 2013

Zircon provenance data record the lateral extent of pancontinental, early Neoproterozoic rivers and erosional unroofing history of the Grenville orogen

scholarly article