Abstract: A 2000 m thick succession of six metasedimentary and metavolcanic units ranging in age from Ordovician through Permian strikes northwest and dips moderately to the southwest in the Rose Mountain area (105K/05). Units 3-6 have conformable contacts exposed and form a continuous succession. Units 1, 2 and 4 are correlated with lower to middle Paleozoic regional stratigraphic units of ancestral North America. Unit 3 consists of pale green argillite with lesser chert pebble conglomerate, sandstone and shale chip breccia interbeds, and is unique to the Rose Mountain area. Unit 5 is bedded chert and is correlated with North American Mount Christie formation. Unit 5 is also similar to chert units in Slide Mountain Terrane. Unit 6 correlates with basalts of the Slide Mountain Terrane.

Unit 4 is correlated with Earn Group and contains two stratiform barite horizons. No sulphides are visibly associated with the barite, but the unit is favourable for stratiform base metal mineralization.

All units contain one major deformation fabric. This contrasts with structural style immediately to the northeast where two major deformation fabrics occur. The Rose Mountain fabric is correlated with the older deformation fabric present to the northeast.

Authors: Pigage, L.C.

Keywords: Geological Mapping

NTS Mapsheet(s): 105K05

Citation: Pigage, L.C., 1999. Preliminary geology of Rose Mountain, Anvil District, central Yukon (105 K/5). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1998, Roots, C.F. and Emond, D.S (eds.), Exploration and Geological Sciences Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 91-103.

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