New insights from geophysical data on the regional structure and geometry of the southwest Thelon Basin and its basement, Northwest Territories, Canada
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Detailed analysis of gravity and aeromagnetic data covering the southwest Thelon Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada, has provided insight into basement geology that has significance to exploration for uranium and possibly other economic metals in a remote frontier region. Interpretation of basement geology has been constrained by the calibration of gravity and magnetic signatures with Precambrian geology adjacent to the basin and sparse seismic data within the basin, creating the first basement geologic map of the southwest Thelon Basin. The basement to the overlying sedimentary units is dominated by magnetic felsic and mafic bodies variably overlying and intruding the gneissic crystalline basement. Supracrustal belts located outside the basin margins are interpreted to continue below the basin fill. Major structures have been delineated geophysically including the Howard Lake Shear Zone and the Bathurst and McDonald fault systems. Northwest-trending structures forming part of the Bathurst fault system appear to control the unconformity surface morphology and the location of basin depocenters. The geologic interpretations are corroborated by joint gravity and magnetic modeling of profiles that reveal the deepest part of the Thelon Basin reaches depths of >2100 m in an area of subdued magnetic and gravimetric response to the north. The basin is a focus of active exploration for uranium, and we have found that areas along the south and eastern margins underlain by U-rich granitoid rocks may have significant potential where intersected by reactivated faults.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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