Geological Mapping in the Campbell Range, Southeastern Yukon (Parts of 105 G/8, G/9 and 105 H/5, H/12)

The Finlayson Lake fault zone forms the boundary between autochthonous North American rocks and rocks of the innermost accreted Slide Mountain and Yukon-Tanana terranes in southeastern Yukon. Geological mapping at 1::50 000 scale in a well exposed area of the Campbell Range, southeastern Yukon, was undertaken to examine the kinematics of the Finlayson Lake fault zone and rock types of the Slide Mountain terrane. Five units were identified: (1) chloritic schist and phyllite, (2) laminated metachert and carbonaceous black slate, (3) tan weathering metachert and maroon siliceous and argillaceous metasiltstone, (4) greenstone and associated breccia, gabbro, metagreywacke, metachert and maroon metasiltstone and (5) serpentinite. Unit 2 is structurally interleaved with submap-scale bodies or layers of serpentinite, hornblende-plagioclase porphyry, plagioclase-potassium fledspar porphyry, quartz-eye muscovite-chlorite phyllite or schist, chloritic schist and minor grey, calcareous metacarbonate. Serpentinite is also exposed in unit 4 and as small slivers along the thrust contact between units 3 and 4. Lithologically, units 4 and 5 are similar to the upper division of the Slide Mountain…

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Government of Yukon

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2026-08-26