Survey Metadata

Till, Indicator minerals

Nunavut

2019

Till sampling survey, NTS 47E, F, G, H, 48B, Jungersen River area, Baffin Island, Nunavut, 2019.





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Survey Description


In July 2019, till samples were collected at 47 sites in the Jungersen River area, on northwestern Baffin Island, Nunavut.  This survey is a continuation of work started in 2018.

Till was sampled from frost boils between 0 and 30 cm from the surface.  At each site, ~2 kg of material was collected for geochemical and sedimentological analyses.  At 42 sites, ~8 kg of till was collected for heavy mineral analysis.  Till pebble lithologies (>2 cm) were counted in the field to complement provenance studies.

The work is described in Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office (CNGO) Summary of Activities 2020. The data are published in CNGO Geoscience Data Series GDS2021-001.

Publication History

Index Publication
1 Tremblay, T. (2021). Geochemistry and mineralogy of glacial sediments and geomorphology of the Jungersen River area, northwestern Baffin Island, Nunavut. In Summary of Activities 2020, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, p. 47–62. ( more)

Project History

Index Year Project
1 2018-2019 Fury and Hecla Geoscience Project, Surficial Geology Component, Nunauvt, 2018-2019 ( more)

Geographic Extent

Minimum Latitude Maximum Latitude Minimum Longitude Maximum Longitude
69.55° 72.78° -85.652° -68.12°

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

  • Covers parts of NTS 47E (Erichsen Lake), 47F (Agu Bay), 47G (Berlinguet Inlet), 47H (Phillips Creek) and 48B (Moffat Inlet) in the Jungerson River area, northwest Baffin Island. Nunavut.  It is bounded to the north by Admiralty Inlet and is located approximately 62 km east of Bernier Bay.

  • Covers parts of NTS 27F (Clyde Inlet), 37H (Buchan Gulf), 38A (Nova Zembla Island) and 38B (Pond Inlet) along the northeast coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut.  It is bounded to the east and northeast by Baffin Bay.  The hamlets of Pond Inlet and Clyde River are found in the northern and southern parts of the study area respectively.

  • Covers parts of NTS 37D (Lake Gillian) and 37F (Steensby Inlet) on west central Baffin Island, Nunavut.  It is located approximately 22 km west of Barnes Ice Cap and 43 km north of Ikpik Bay.

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