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2026-08-26

Results from the geological mapping of four 1:50 000 map areas (NTS 105D/13-16) north of Whitehorse are presented. The maps form a transect across the northern portion of Stikinia, an accreted terrane of uncertain origin. This bulletin establishes a stratigraphic nomenclature, and provides descriptions of 16 units of layered rocks that constitute Stikinia. Portions of the adjacent Cache Creek Terrane, Yukon-Tanana Terrane and the Coast Plutonic Complex are also represented and described. In addition, biostratigraphic and isotopic age constraints are provided for almost all of the units. Stikinia is composed of several tectonic elements that indicate an episodic depositional history characteristic of an island arc environment. A newly discovered Late Paleozoic package, here call the Takhini assemblage, is defined, and represents the most northerly strata correlated as the Joe Mountain Formation. This enigmatic suite is Middle Triassic to Middle Jurassic sedimentary rocks are the fill of the marginal basin known as the Whitehorse Trough. Strata of the Whitehorse Trough Supergroup include: clasts of deformed Takhini assemblage; deep-water sediments as old as Ladinian; igneous clasts…

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