Survey Metadata

Surface water, Lake sediment

Ontario

2002

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Lake sediment and/or water samples were collected at 932 sites, for an average density of 1 sample per 4.3 km ².

The data are published in Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report OFR6104 and Miscellaneous Release-Data, MRD145.

The data are also part of a compilation database, Lake Geochemistry of Ontario – 2019.

Index	Publication
1	Felix, V.E. (2005). Eagle Lake area high-density regional lake sediment and water geochemical survey, northwestern Ontario. Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6104, 70 p. ( more)
2	Felix, V.E. (2005). Lake sediment and water analytical data for the Eagle Lake area, northwestern Ontario. Ontario Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Release-Data, MRD145. ( more)
3	Ontario Geological Survey (2020). Lake geochemistry of Ontario—2019. Ontario Geological Survey, online database. https://www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndmaccess/mndm_dir.asp?type=pub&id=LakeGeochemON. Accessed January 25, 2023. ( more)

Index	Year	Project
1	2019	Lake Geochemistry of Ontario Compilation Project, 2019 ( more)

Minimum Latitude	Maximum Latitude	Minimum Longitude	Maximum Longitude
49.5°	50°	-94°	-92.5°

The geographic extent of the survey is defined by the following polygons:

Covers NTS 52F/11 (Osbourne Bay), 52F/13 (Feist Lake), 52F/14 (Vermillion Bay) and 52F/15 (Dryden) in the Eagle Lake area, northwestern Ontario. The towns of Dryden, Oxdrift and Vermillion Bay are found within the study area and the Trans Canada Highway runs through the northern part of the study area. It is bounded to the north and south by 50°N latitude and 49.5°N latitude respectively.