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 GEOLOGICAL MAP OF SASKATCHEWAN
Map Legend General Information
2021 Edition
This map represents our current state of knowledge and is based on its precursor compiled by
Phanerozoic Sedimentary Rocks1 Unmetamorphosed Proterozoic Rocks2 Macdonald and Slimmon (1999). It is a geological bedrock and subcrop map; therefore, the
legend of the unmetamorphosed sedimentary basins does not reflect the entire stratigraphic -110˚
Paleogene to Neogene Ectasian to Stenian Intrusive Rocks
Undifferentiated diamictite (Paleogene to Neogene): Poorly sorted, containing matrix-supported rounded to very angular clasts (pebbles to Diabase dykes and sills: Includes Mackenzie Dyke Swarm (1270 Ma), Douglas
record of southern Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy, 2014) or the
Athabasca Basin region (Bosman and Ramaekers, 2015). The 1:1 000 000 scale topographic map
60˚
PMs -108˚
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES -102˚
Td cobbles); clasts of Mannville Group, Winnipegosis Formation, Athabasca Supergroup and crystalline basement; matrix contains carbonate; Mdd 60˚
River Suite (1165 Ma), Moore Lakes Suite (1108 Ma) -106˚ -104˚
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quartz clasts are highly fractured; <110 m

base uses CanVec files, an acronym for Canadian Vector, which are a digital cartographic ARg ARsn ARsn ARsn PHUc
ARsn AEv AEsn Patterson
reference product produced by Natural Resources Canada. Map projection is UTM NAD83 PRg ARg PTHg
Sovereign ARsn AHag AEsn PHUc
Ectasian to Stenian CSRS98 (Canadian Spatial Reference System 1998) in Extended Zone 13. The map was Thainka ARbd Ena URgq ARgg ARbdScott ARgg PTHg Bailey Lake
Tu Undifferentiated Paleogene and Neogene: Quartzite and chert gravel, locally conglomeratic; sand and clayey silt ARg
Lake ARbm PWsn
AEv PHUsn PHUc
Misaw

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Athabasca Supergroup (1840 to 1500 Ma) processed overall using ArcMap 10.x software.
Lake
Tazin PRgl
Lake
Picea ARbd Wayaw
AHag Hamill PHUc
AHag AEttg AHag
PHUsn
PRgl Lake Lake Lake
McFarlane Group Lake ARsn Lake Lake
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ARbm AEttg
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ARgg ARvm Premier Warren Lake
Wood Mountain Formation (Miocene): Terrestrial conglomerate and sandstone; abundant mammalian and other vertebrate fauna; silicified Tazin River Lake AHfn AHag
Twm The lithological codes (e.g. PTAbd) are constructed using the following format: the first letter Tsalwor Lake AHg PTHg Gebhard
wood common; <20 m ARvm Dodge ARsn

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ARsn
MAFc Carswell Formation: Siliciclastic rocks and stromatolitic carbonate
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URgq ARvm
(capitalized, bold, italicized) denotes the geological era or period; the second and, in some Lake PATs
ARbd Lake
AEv AEv
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PTHg Lake

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URgq ARg AHag
Cypress Hills Formation (Eocene to Miocene): Fluviatile conglomerate, mainly quartzite; interchannel lacustrine marlstone with minor cases, third letters denote a major geological subdivision (e.g. ‘A’ – Athabasca Supergroup, Harper PRgl
PMam
ARbm Keseechewun Many
Tch PRTs Oldman ARbm ARsn
PWsn
AEttg
volcanic ash beds toward the east; abundant mammalian and other vertebrate fauna; <80 m; fossiliferous fine-grained sandstone with local

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PHUsn Lake AHag
Douglas Formation: Mudstone, fine- to very fine-grained arenite [1767 Ma]; ‘R’ – Rae craton, ‘T’ – Trans-Hudson Igneous Supersuite, ‘m’ – Mannville Group, ‘W’ – Wollaston ARg Bonokoski

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ARsn PMam ¢¢ ¢ ¢ PMsn AEv
Lake URgn ARvm Lake Oman Islands
MAFd ARsn Hawkins
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PRag Grollier Wapiyao
conglomerate of the Swift Current Creek Beds; <20 m

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PMq
deposition ongoing at |1541 Ma| Supergroup, etc.). For most crystalline Precambrian rocks, the last one to two lower case PRTs Nicholson Lake PTHg AHag

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URgd
URgl Lake Fontaine
Lake PWsn Lake
Lake PTHg Lake
PRgl ARd Astrolabe Apipuyew

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letters denote rock type (e.g. ‘o’ – conglomeratic rocks, ‘sn’ – pelitic rocks, ‘vm’ – mafic volcanic ARvm ARgg
C

PATs PMam Lake ARvm

Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene): Fluviatile-lacustrine buff, grey, and white sandy claystone, locally cemented, green-grey to buff PRTs Lake Lake PWr PTHg
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PRag AHfn AHfn

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PRgq ARd Herbert AHag Emerson
Tr Otherside Formation rocks, etc.), but the last letters in the Athabasca Supergroup and Phanerozoic sedimentary
PAFq
Forsyth ARsn PTHg
ARg Bompas PWsn AEsn AEv
Lake
feldspathic sandstone, siltstone and shale; minor coal; includes kaolinite beds of the Willow Bunch Member; <245 m

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MAFod URgd PRg
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PMsn ¢¢ ARbd PWr Young PWsn Lake
Davy Member: Pebbly quartz arenite and quartz arenite rock codes indicate Group, Formation, Member or rock type. A full explanation of codes is ARsn PRgl PATs
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ARvm Lake ARgg Box Lake AHg
PRgl PRg Lake AEttg

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PRag PMs PMq ARsn PHUsn
Lake PWq
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PATvm
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ARgt ARd PHUc
given in the accompanying Summary of Investigations publication. Lake

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Cretaceous Otherside Formation PATvm Lake URbd PHUc AHag
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Black Beaverlodge Kaskawan
MAFob PTHg

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PMam URgd
PMsn PTHg AHag PWc AEttg

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PWam
Undifferentiated Eastend, Whitemud, Battle, and Frenchman formations (Maastrichtian): Nonmarine to estuarine with marine pelecypod Birkbeck Member: Quartz arenite Bay Lake Thicke PTHg ARsn Lake Milton

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PMam PMsn PWsn
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PMam ARsn ARd PTHg PWc Nunim
Kfe Information from this publication may be used if credit is given. It is recommended that PAFq ARgt
PRg
ARbd ARsn ARd AEttg AEsn PTHg
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beds near base, yellow-brown fine-grained silty and clayey volcanic lithic sandstone with interbedded grey to greenish shale (Eastend Fm); Lake Grove AHfn Lake

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Lake PTHg

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PTHg Hutcherson
mainly fluviatile, kaolinitic mudstone and sandstone, grey-purple mudstone and carbonaceous shale, thin lignite beds; dark brown to Otherside Formation reference to this publication be made in the following form: Maxeiner, R., Ashton, K.E., URgl PMq ARd ¢¢ ARd AHfn Lake AHt AHag
MAFoa
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PRg ARg

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PMam PMq PWam PWsn Lake PTHg AHt

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Archibald Member: Pebbly quartz arenite, quartz arenite Bosman, S., Card, C., Kohlruss, D., Love, M., Love, T., Marsh, A., Morelli, R. and Slimmon, W.L. PWsn AHag PWr AHg Franklin

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purplish black bentonitic silty shale, mauve-grey weathering; fluviatile-lacustrine grey-green sandstone, nonmarine red and green shale and Chipman AHag Charlebois PWam
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Clut Walker AEv AHfn
PMq ARsn Lakes PTHg Mukasew
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mudstone, locally dolomitic or calcareous, kaolinitic and carbonaceous with thin lignite beds, dinosaur fauna, including Triceratops and PAFq PRg ARsn AHt
Lake
Locker Lake Formation
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Lake AHt Hewgill

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ARg AHfn PAMr Lake AHfn
Tyrannosaurus rex, amphibians and fish (Frenchman Fm); <130 m MAFlm Survey, Saskatchewan Energy and Resources. PAMb ARsn AHfn AHt
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AHag
Marsin Member: Pebbly quartz arenite ARgt PWam Lake Lake
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ARgn PWc AHt Kohn
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Bearpaw Formation (Campanian to Maastrichtian): Marine grey claystone, shale, and siltstone; minor brownish grey sandstone; concretionary Credits: Revisions since 1999 are based on detailed mapping and geochronology Lake Athabasca u Lac Riv
er
AHag AHfn PTHg AHag AHfn
Kb

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beds and thin bentonite layers; commonly with foraminifera and molluscs; <400 m Locker Lake Formation AHag
Ochak
Fanson Phelps PTHg Lake AHg
MAFlb completed by the co-authors of this map and other authors. Detailed references for this
AHfn
Lake AHt
Brudell Member: Conglomeratic quartz arenite Helmer AHag
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ARg PWr
Black PWsn Lake AHt AHag
work are not given, but include work in the Rae Province (K. Ashton, C. Card), the Hearne Lake AHfn Lake AHt AHt
Belly River Formation (Campanian): Fluviatile to minor marine light grey-buff sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone with sharp lateral variations; PAMb PAMb PWq
Kbr Locker Lake Formation Province (C. Card, R. Maxeiner, C. Harper), work completed throughout the Reindeer Zone Richards Lake
AHt PWsn PWc
local coal and bentonite; mollusc coquinas; <200 m MAFls Lake
PWsn PWam AHt
Snare Member: Pebbly quartz arenite (K. Ashton, R. Maxeiner, R. Morelli), and the Athabasca Supergroup based on drillcore ATHABASCA SAND DUNES Riou
Elizabeth PWsn PWr Misekumaw Hara
MAFls Engler Lake Falls Newnham PWsn AHt PTHg
PROVINCIAL PARK Hannah Lake
Lea Park Formation (Campanian): Marine grey shale, minor siltstone, fine-grained sandstone, and bentonite beds; abundant foraminifera and interpretation from drilling by the mineral exploration industry in the Athabasca Basin Lake
Wolverine Point Group [1662 Ma] Lake Bickerton AHg AHt PWq
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Klp
molluscs; <200 m region (S. Bosman). Revisions for the Phanerozoic are a result of government 59˚ Archibald
MAFlb Perch Lake Lake
Burnett
PWsn
MAFlb MAFlm AHt Lake
compilations and targeted field work (A. Marsh, D. Kohlruss, S. Bosman), which enabled MAFls Lake Hocking Nordbye Lake PWq
PAWq Quartz arenite ± mudstone ± phosphatic hardgrounds (1644 Ma) PAMb
PTHg

Milk River Formation (Santonian to Campanian): Marine greenish grey bentonitic siltstone and shale; <265 m a more detailed breakdown of the subglacial distribution of Phanerozoic strata. Lake Lake
AHt PWam
AHt
PWsn PWsn PWq 59˚
Kmr AHfn
AHag Walsh Kingston PWam
Lazenby Lake Group PAWq Giles Babiche Lake AHag
Science Editors: Berenyi, J., Delaney, G., Morelli, R., Yurkowski, M. MAFoa
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Lake
Upper Colorado Group - First White Speckled Shale, Carlile Formation, Second White Specks Formation (Cenomanian to Santonian): Marine MAFob Lake PWam PWsn
Kuc Production Editor: Brown, H., Squirrel Lake PWq
PALl Larter Formation: Quartz arenite ± pebbly, mudstone
M

calcareous shale, claystone, and mudstone locally with coccolith debris; siltstone, shale, mudstone, bentonite beds and chalk; <275 m Davy
Lake
Lake PAMb Bentley Bannock AHfn

Lower Colorado Group - Belle Fourche Formation, Fish Scales Formation, Westgate Formation, Viking Formation, Joli Fou Formation (Albian This map is accompanied by the following report: Maxeiner, R.O., Ashton, K.E., Bosman, S., MAFob Lake Lake Charcoal
Klc PALs Shiels Formation: Quartz arenite with pebbly layers Card, C., Kohlruss, D., Marsh, A., Morelli, R. and Slimmon, W.L. (2021): Notes to accompany Luffman
Wapata
PWsn
AHfn PWsn
Lake PWr
to Cenomanian): Marine siltstone, mudstone, shale, sandstone, conglomerate, minor coeval kimberlite in the Fort à la Corne area; <270 m MAFoa MAFlb MAFoa Lake
Whigham PWr
the new 2021 edition of the 1:1 000 000-scale geological map of Saskatchewan; in Lake Lake PWr Waspison
PTHg
Manitou Falls Group [1814 Ma] Summary of Investigations 2021, Volume 1, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, MAFlm Carswell PAWq
McFarlane
Mdd r Corson PWsn AHag Lake
ve
Mannville Group (Aptian to Albian): Fluviatile to marine quartzose sandstone, mudstone and siltstone; clay-intraclast-rich quartz arenite Lake Ri
Saskatchewan Ministry of the Energy and Resources, Miscellaneous Report 2021-4.1, Lake PWsn
Km > siltstone and mudstone; quartz arenite, minor pebbly quartz arenite, minor clay intraclasts; minor coeval kimberlite in the Fort à la Corne O I C PAMd Clampitt-Dunlop formations: Clay-intraclast-rich quartz arenite ± mudstone
Paper A-2. Bartlett PAWq MAFc
MAFoa
Sava
area; <290 m Lake MAFls MAFob MAFlb Forsyth
Hatchet Lake PWsn
Livingstone Mdd PTHg
Lake Lake
Success Formation (Kimmeridgian to Berriasian): Fluviatile white to light grey-green kaolinitic quartzose sandstone and mudstone with The geological data that was used to create this map (including the 1:1 000 000 scale PAMh AHag
PAMh Hodge Formation: Pebbly quartz arenite ± conglomerate Lake PTHg PWq
AHag Mdd
Kss subordinate feldspar, sphaerosiderite, chert, marcasite, and carbonaceous fragments; cobble and silt end-members, trough cross-bedding geology, fault and Precambrian basement elevation contour layers) are also available Granger

River
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Durrant Kingsley
and truncated cross-sets; glauconitic with upward-coarsening sets; <90 m for viewing or download on the Saskatchewan Mining and Petroleum GeoAtlas: Mdd Lake Scrimes

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PAMb
PAMw Warnes Formation: Clay-intraclast-rich quartz arenite PMq Lake PWsn Lake
(https://gisappl.saskatchewan.ca/GeoAtlas) Snare
Lake
PTHg PWr
Devonian URgn
Mdd
nd AHag
AHfn
PTHg PWr
MAFc Lake PAMw
PAWq fou
R

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Although the Ministry of Energy and Resources has exercised all reasonable care in MAFoa ate
Dw Winnipegosis Formation (Eiffelian to Givetian): Marine platform carbonate, basinal reefs with bituminous inter-reef laminites; <120 m PAMb Bird and Collins formations: Conglomeratic quartz arenite, ± pebbly quartz arenite
Cluff Mdd
Thomson W PTHg PWc PTHg
Lake MAFd MAFob PAMh PWsn AHag
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the compilation, interpretation and production of this map, it is not possible to ensure Lake PWsn PWsn Metka
PWc PTHg Oback
total accuracy, and all persons who rely on the information contained herein do so at Hale Mdd Dautremont
Pasfield Theriau Henday
PTHg
PWsn Lake
PWsn
PALl
Da Ashern Formation (Eiffelian): Marine reddish brown to greenish grey argillaceous dolostone and dolomitic shale; local anhydrite; <35 m PAMr Read Formation: Conglomerate to mudstone, quartz arenite their own risk. The Ministry of Energy and Resources and the Government of Lake
Lake
Lake Lake
Lake
PTHg Lake
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PALs PWc

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Wollaston
Saskatchewan accept no liability for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies that may be PWam

Riv
MAFlm PWsn PTHg AHbd
Meadow Lake Formation (Emsian to Eiffelian): Marine grey to buff and greyish pink to reddish brown argillaceous dolostone with interbeds included in, or derived from, this map. MAFlm PALs AHfn
R

Dml PAMy Reilly Formation (outlier located 90 km southeast of Athabasca Basin): PWsn AHag
of mudstone, limestone, sandstone, and local evaporites; restricted to northwest of the Meadow Lake Escarpment; <280 m Conglomeratic quartz arenite MAFlb MAFls AHfn Fidler AHbd
PALl
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Mdd PAMd Lake

Bay
Waterbury
Silurian Fair Point Group [1810 Ma] Brudell Hull PTWg
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MAFlb Lake
PWam
PWsn Lake
PWsn
Interlake Formation (Rhuddanian to Homerian): Marine dolostone with thin argillaceous and arenaceous marker beds in lower part; <220 m PWr
Sl PAFq Conglomeratic and pebbly quartz arenite MAFls AHfn AHag
A L E

PWsn
Bracket conventions for age 58˚ PALs
Lake Ahenakew PWsn Hydichuk
AHfn
PTWg
PAWq AHbd
A L E

Dml PALl Zangeza

Ordovician Martin Group constraints; ages are given in million PAWq
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Lake PAMr AHag PWsn
AHfn
Lake PTWg AHbd AHbd
58˚
PAMh Cr Cushing PTHg PTHg
Stonewall Formation (Richmondian to Rhuddanian): Marine dolostone with thin argillaceous and arenaceous marker beds; minor anhydrite Mafic flows; intraformational to Martin Group sedimentary rocks
years (Ma): PAMh Km Km Mdd Dunning
Engemann
PAMh AHfn
AHag
Osw PATvm Lake Mayson Lake
PAMb PTWg
beds in southeastern Saskatchewan; <50 m
P

(unit PATs) (1818 Ma) (1920 Ma) - Crystallization age of igneous rock; Minto
Lake Lake Kirsch
PTHg AHfn Zengle
Km Lake Close PTWg PTWbd
Lake AHbd
P

Stony Mountain Formation (Richmondian): Marine dolostone and dolomitic limestone; argillaceous dolostone to dolomitic shale near base also used to constrain maximum PALl PALs PALs Lake PWsn Bay
Osm Td PTHg AHfn Lake AHbd
and thin anhydrite at top in southeastern Saskatchewan; <50 m PATs Conglomerate, sandstone, arkose, siltstone [1905 Ma] (unconformable relationship) or minimum Hall
PAMd Pipestone PALs PWsn MacKenzie
(crosscutting) age of sedimentary sequence PAMb Lake Lake
Dml PAMh Lake
Orr Red River Formation (Edenian to Richmondian): Marine interbedded dolomitized mudstone and wackestone; dolomudstone; <170 m Statherian Intrusive Rocks PWsn
PWr PTHg Middle AHag
AHfn
[1920 Ma] - Youngest detrital zircon age; used to 100 URgq PWc AHbd
PTHg
Jan Lake Intrusive Suite: Leucogranite, aplogranite, granite, constrain maximum depositional age of a Patterson AHfn Lake
PTJg Weitzel AHbd
Cambrian pegmatite (1774 to 1730 Ma) sedimentary sequence Lake PWq
PAMh Lake PWsn
Deadwood Formation (Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician): Marine interbedded fine-grained quartzose sandstone, siltstone, and shale, Td McDowell PWr AHag PTHg
PWsn PWr PWq
Cd PWsn
usually tints of green and red, commonly glauconitic in upper portion; medial silty limestone in southwest; basal medium- to {1920 Ma} - Minimum age based on other Forrest URgd
Keefe Lake Cairns
PTPbd

Clearwater
coarse-grained sandstone; Cambro-Ordovician boundary near top in southeast; <510 m evidence (e.g. metamorphic overprint) Lake PAMh PAMd Lake
Morell
PWsn AHbd AHag
REINDEER
Lake Swan
Lake Mullin
PAMw Landsdowne LAKE
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The Phanerozoic portion of this map largely represents a subcrop map and therefore does not reflect the entire stratigraphic record of southern Saskatchewan; this also means that 2
The Athabasca Basin portion of this map is a geological bedrock and subcrop map and therefore does not reflect URgq PWo PWq Lake Lake

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none of the unconformities are indicated in the legend; this additional information can be found in Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy (2014). Estimated maximum formation |1920| - Absolute age of deposition of
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the entire stratigraphic record of the Athabasca Basin region; this also means that none of the unconformities are AHbd

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Kelic Mdd PWc PWsn
thicknesses are given at the end of each unit description. indicated in the legend; this additional information can be found in Bosman and Ramaekers (2015). sedimentary rock Preston
PAMb Lake Morwick

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URgd Lake PAMw AHdi
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Lake Cree Dunnett AHbd
PAMh MacIntyre
PWsn Lake AHag
PRCg Lake Lake Russel Lake
Lloyd PAMw Lake PAMr PTHg
Mdd AHag
Lake
Metamorphosed Rocks of the Western Churchill Structural Province Metamorphosed Rocks of the Reindeer Zone PAMb PWsn PTHg
PWc
PWo PTCg AHbd AHdi

PWam PWsn Mdd AHag PWq

Trans-Hudson Igneous Supersuite in Reindeer Zone and 95
Granite, megacrystic granite; syenogranite (1850-1750 Ma); includes minor Missi Supracrustal Suite (1848 Ma) to (1831 Ma) URgd PMam PWsn AHt Holgar
PTHg Archean rocks and unmetamorphosed Hudson and Nueltin suites (includes Mullock Lake Assemblage and historic McLennan, Hearne Craton
PMsn
AHag Lake AHfn
AHag PWsn PWsn Peter
PWc PPrq
Sickle, and Ourom groups) Volcanic and plutonic rocks related to the Trans-Hudson Orogen, PRCg PAMb AHag Spalding
PTHg
PWsn Lake
Rae Province Hearne Province Arkose, conglomerate, psammite and derived migmatite; spanning the rifting to post-orogenic phases (2086 to 1730 Ma) Waddington
Lake Bailey AHdi
AHdi
Lake Reilly
PCMr AHt PAMb AHfn PWsn Lake
Hurwitz Group (possibly correlative with 1960 to 1900 Ma magnetic; felsic-intermediate arc volcanic and subvolcanic rocks URgqr AHfn
Lake AHbd
PTPbd PTAqd PTAvi
PTe Enderbite, charno-enderbite sills (1830 Ma) PMsn AHag AHdi er PAMy
PRCa PWsn Big Sandy Riv
Upper Hurwitz Group in Nunavut) PMs PWsn PWr
PWsn PTRgn
PCMc Calcic arkose, psammite, psammopelite URgq PWq Lake AHag
PTHg
PTam PTAvm

PHUc Marble, calcic pelite, calc-silicate rock Anatectic Leucogranitoid Suite (1835 to 1800 Ma) 57˚ PWsn PWr
AHag
PWsn
AHbd Gillespie PTRgn
Thluicho Lake Group [1922 Ma] to {1889 Ma}: Conglomerate, PWr PWam Highrock Lake PTAqd
PRTs Leucotonalite to leucogranodiorite (1816 to 1800 Ma);
PMsn PWsn PPrq
PKsn
sandstone, siltstone PTlg PWsn Lake PPrq
PCMo Polymictic conglomerate, arkose, wacke minor (1832 Ma) components Careen
AHfn PTHg
PTRgn 57˚
CLEARWATER RIVER AHfn PWam Nokomis
paleo-unconformity between PRTs and units ARg, URgq, URgd PHUsn Pelite; derived schist and migmatite Km Lake AHfn PWc
Wathaman
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ paleo-unconformity and in part facies-equivalents to PROVINCIAL PARK PWr PWr PWr Oliver Lake PTRgn
Gwillim Costigan PTWg Lake
Burntwood Supracrustal Suite PTgl Leucogranite to leucotonalite (1837 to 1814 Ma) PWr PWr
paleo-unconformity between unit PRTs and units ARg, URgq, URgd URgqr Lake PWo n Lake PKsn PTam PKsn
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Black Birch Lake ma PTAgd
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ 90 AHag
PWsn th a Perry
PWsn AHag Wa Mdd PTAgd
AHfn Davin Lake PTAvm
Burntwood Supracrustal Suite (1867 Ma) to (1841 Ma) Wathaman Intrusive Suite (1865 to 1850 Ma) PTHg ARgt
Lake Ithingo Haultain
PWr
Upper
Lake PTAbd
PTam
PTAbd
PTRgn
Intrusive rocks related to Arrowsmith and Taltson orogenies Wollaston Supergroup and similar-aged supracrustal rocks PWam Lake PWam
Lake
PWr
Foster Mdd
PTgl
PTgl Garth
(includes 1867 to 1850 Ma Wunehikun Bay, Hebden Lake, Crew Lake PTWg Megacrystic granite and quartz monzonite Dw Dml Wasekamio AHfn PWo Mdd
Anatectic monzogranite to granodiorite; inclusion-rich in Hearne Province (2075 Ma) to (1865 Ma) Lake
Burbidge Cheadle Lake
PRag assemblages; and historic 1855 to 1841 Ma Burntwood Group) Lake PWam Ghana
(1930 Ma; includes White Lake and Rogers Lake granites) Arkose, calcareous arkose, psammite, psammopelite; PKsn Lake PTAgd
PWr PWr Lake PKsn Lake
derived gneiss; may include unit AHfn PCBsd Diatexitic pelite derived from unit PCBsn PTRgn PTAgd PTAqd PTAvi
Leucomonzogranite to leucogranodiorite (1930 Ma; PTWbd Megacrystic monzonite, diorite and gabbro
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Bay

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PTam
David PTAgd PCMr
1959 Ma) PWc Daly Lower PTAvf Bleasdell PTlg

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intrusive contact with ARsn, ARbm, ARg, URgl, URgn, URgqr, URgq, PRgl Courtenay Lake and Geikie River groups) PCBc PWsn AHfn PTAgd
marble, intermediate volcaniclastic rock, amphibolite, in part AHfn Foster Lake
¢
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PWsn PWsn PWsn PTgl Wapus
Arc to MORB igneous rocks related to the Manikewan Ocean in the
74B 74A
Macoun PTam
La Loche Lake PTAvm
¢

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(>1897 Ma); derived gneiss and migmatite PTgl PKsn PTAqd

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Reindeer Zone, including rocks that were previously included in Amisk Lake Lake
PCBsn

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PWsn Lake PCBc

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PWsn
PWc Mixed calc-silicate rock, pelitic gneiss, marble 85 PWam
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PWam
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Mdd Deep
paleo-unconformity between Burntwood Supracrustal Suite and older Palmbere PWam PTgl
PWsn AHfn AHfn PTAvf
components of Amisk Lake Igneous Suite PTAgd PCBsd
O T E

Plutonic Rocks (1897 to 1832 Ma) Porter PKsn PTAvi

¢ Shaw

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Quartzite, pelite, calc-silicate rocks, minor pebble /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ PWsn PTRgn Bay
Lake PWr May PTAvf PTAgd
PWq Lake AHag

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Frobisher
conglomerate (includes Daly Lake and Campbell River groups,

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PTAqd Lake

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA
Lake PTAgd PTAqd Kamuchawie
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PTAgd Granite, granodiorite, tonalite Lake PWam PTgl PTam
PROVINCE OF ALBERTA

and Hidden Bay Assemblage) PTgl Hickson PCBsn PCMr PTAgd Lake
PWsn Holt AHag PCMr
AHfn PTlg

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Flatstone PWam Lake Kennedy
Amphibolite, mafic volcanic rock, arkose, psammopelite and Lake

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Rottenstone Migmatite Complex
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PTam
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PWam calc-silicate rocks (includes rocks related to Hidden Bay PTAgn Strongly foliated and refolded granitic to quartz dioritic gneiss Lake PWr PTAvf
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AHfn PKsn Maribelli
PTAqd Harriott
Kyaska

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PTAqd Lake Lake

PPrq and derived migmatite [2059 Ma]; includes Park Island George PKsn
PTRgn Lake Pagato
paleo-unconformity between Wollaston Supergroup and
PWam
PCBc PTAqd PTAvm PCBsn

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Lake PWsn Paul
southern Hearne craton Assemblage (<1865 Ma) PTAqd Diorite to quartz diorite (minor granodiorite) PTAvm PTAgn PTe
Lake Kamatsi
AHfn PTAvf PTAgd

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Murmac Bay Group and similar-aged supracrustal rocks in PWam AHfn
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/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ PWsn PWsn PTAgd PTlg Lake
PTAvm
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Pelitic to psammopelitic gneiss and derived migmatite [1848 Ma]; PWsn PWsn Jewett
PTlg¢
Lake
Rae Province [2327 Ma] to {1940 Ma} PKsn 56˚ Keller
PWam
Nagle
Lake
Porter Bay Intrusive Suite (1918 to 1913 Ma) of Trans-Hudson includes Kenyon Lake Assemblage PTAbd Gabbro to diorite (minor ultramafic intrusions) Peter Pond PWsn PTWg PCMr

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Churchill PTlg

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Lake Lake
Undifferentiated sedimentary and minor volcanic rocks PTPbd PTAvm PTAqd Royal PTAbd
McInnis PTe

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PMs Igneous Supersuite: Monzodiorite, gabbro; minor supracrustals Barney Lake AHfn PWam AHfn PCBsn PCBc
Brabant
(includes Waugh Lake, Virgin Schist groups) 80 PTlg ¢¢ 56˚
A

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Undifferentiated granodioritic to gneissic tonalite of PKsn Lake PTam Lake

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PTRgn Lake Lake PKsn PTam
intrusive contact with AHag, AHbd
Trans-Hudson Igneous Supersuite; derived anatectic granitoids Volcanic Rocks (1905 to 1860 Ma) Km
PTRgn PTAgd PTAvi
PCBsn
Lake PTAqd
Psammopelite to pelite, and derived gneiss, migmatite

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(includes tectonic slivers of Burntwood and Missi supracrustal suites) PWr
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PMsn PTAqd Steephill Lake
PTAqd PTAvm PTAvi
and anatectic granite (includes Careen Lake Group) AHfn PCBsn
in part in structural contact with Amisk Lake Igneous Suite
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Felsic to intermediate volcanic, volcaniclastic and minor Km PWam PPrq
PTAvf ! Buffalo Narrows PWsn PWsn PKsn PTAvm
Amphibolite including mafic volcanic, minor gabbro, and subvolcanic intrusive rocks; derived gneiss PWsn PTgl PTAvi ¢ PCBc
PMam
PWsn
PTgl
PTlg PCBc ¢ PCMr PTAqd PTam
clastic sedimentary rocks (includes Virgin Schist Group) Knee PTAgd

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Intermediate to felsic volcanic, volcaniclastic and minor PTHg PTAgd PTAvi
PTlg
PTAvi Lake AHfn PWsn PTAgd
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PTgl PTAgn

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Quartzite, siltstone, psammite, dolostone, calc-silicate, and subvolcanic intrusive rocks Dillon PTAqd
PMq Vermette PWr PTHg PTgl
McIntosh
PTAvm PCBc PTAgd
PTlg
derived gneiss; minor amphibolite, psammopelite to pelite PCBsn
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Lake PTlg PCBc
PTRgn PTRgn
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Mafic to intermediate (ultramafic) volcanic rocks; derived Lake AHfn Sandfly Lake
PTAvi
PTam
paleo-unconformity between Murmac Bay Group and ARgt, ARd, PTAvm
Cook Lake Igneous Suite (2086 to 2075 Ma) PWsn
¢
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amphibolite AHfn Lake PCMr PTAvm

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ARgg, URgn, URgq; in part synchronous with PRg Amphibolite; unknown affiliation and protolith; includes mafic PTgl PCMo PTAvm PTAvm PCMr PTAvm PCBsn PCBsd
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PWsn Black

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PTAvf
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Upper AHgg
PTCg Clam Lake Structural Inlier (possibly related to Hearne Bear

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likely high-grade equivalents of PTAvm ¢
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Wollaston Supergroup and unit AHag Cd PCBsn PTAqd PTAgd

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Cumins Niska Dml PCBsn PTAgd

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PWsn Island PTAgn
craton) ¢¢

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Kazan Lac PCBsd

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PTlg

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Clearwater Intrusive Suite (2120 to 2110 Ma) 75 Lake Lake 30
Lake
Lake PTAqd
PTAbd PCMr
River
PCMr

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Ile-a-la-Crosse
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0
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Augen granite and derived gneiss (2045 Ma); possibly PKsn PTAqd

73N
Lake PTAvi

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PTBg PWsn PPrq PCBsn PTlg
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63M
Otter PTAvm !
PRCa Anorthosite (2110 Ma) intruding Archean granite and orthogneiss (unit AHag) ! Pinehouse Lake PPrq PTAgd
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PTAvi PTAvi
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PTAvm Sandy Bay

73O 73P
PTlg Lake PTAgn

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PTam rch
PTAvm ¢ ¢ ¢¢
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PTAgn

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Ile-a-la-Crosse PTAvm
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PTAvm PCBsn Kipahigan

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PRCg Granite (2120 Ma) Watapi Besnard PTWbd
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Dw PWr PTWbd PCBc

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PTAqd PTAbd PTAgd PCMr
PPrq

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Lake PTAvi PTAqd PTlg
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PCBsn
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intrusive contact with URgq, URgd Pinehouse
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PZg PWq
PTlg PTAvi

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PCBsn PZg
precursors; minor Archean components of ASlt (Nistowiak thrust) ¢¢

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AHfn PTAvm ¢ ¢ Wood
Dml ¢ PCBsn PTAgd PTJg

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PTAbd ASg PTam

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¢ PTAvm

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monzonite, diorite (2327 to 2287 Ma) PTam PTAvi PTAqd
PTAgn
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PTgl PCBsn
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Klc PTlg

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Lake
¢ PCBc

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intrusive contact with ARgt
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PCBsn LAC LA RONGE PTAgd PCBc

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Morin PTAqd PTAvm
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PZg ASg
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PROVINCIAL
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PCBsn

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Lake Egg PTAqd PTAqd
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PTAvi
Lake Beauval ! Lac PTlg ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
Pelican ASlt PTlg PTAgn

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Mixed Orthogneisses 70 PTAqd

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PTAvi
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Arsenault Lake ¢ ¢
NEOARCHEAN TO PALEOPROTEROZOIC

PTAvm Lake PCMc

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La PCBc

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La Ronge PTAvi
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Granitic to quartz dioritic gneiss (in part 2517 to 2325 Ma); 55˚ ! ¢Air Ronge ¢ ¢

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Plonge Lake
URgq PTlg
PTAgn

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PTAvm
amphibolite rafts; leucogranite sheets (exposing rocks of the Sask craton) Emmeline ¢
¢ LAC PTAqd ¢ PTAvm PTlg

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Primrose

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Macallum PTAvm PTlg PCMo
Mirond Lake Igneous Suite: Charnockitic granite, granite, 0 15 Lake PTAqd ASlt 55˚

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LA RONGE PTAgn ASlt
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PTAgd

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Retrogressed granitic to quartz dioritic gneiss (derived from PTam
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Lake 0 PTAvi

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Black Bear Island Lake Structural Inlier PTAvm
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(possibly related to Hearne craton) Km PTAvm ¢¢ ¢

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URbd Quartz monzonite to norite; derived gneiss Km PTAgd ¢¢ ¢¢ PTAvi
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Black Bear Island augen granite and derived gneiss PCBsn

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AHgg Lake
¢ PTJg

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Lost
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(2518 Ma) PTAgd PTAgd
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Granite, granodiorite; derived gneiss (in part 2565 to 2420 Ma) PTAgd

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Lake
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FLIN

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PTJg PTAgn PTAvm Creighton FLON

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PCBsn PTAbd
PTAvm ¢ ¢
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PTAvm

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URgn PTAvf

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Flotten Kuc PTAvm

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to 2300 Ma); leucogranite and amphibolite sheets 65 Lake
Lake Km PTJg PTlg PTAqd PTlg
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PTAvf PTAvi

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Leucogranodiorite to leucotonalite gneiss; derived !

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PTAvf
ASlt Denare Beach
Gneissic leucogranite to granite (in part 2707 Ma); minor Smoothstone
¢¢
Deschambault PCBsn
URgl migmatite (3117 to 2804 Ma); includes ‘Q gneiss’ PTAqd
gneissic pelite Klc
Lake 300 Lake ¢ PTAvi
¢¢ PTAvf
PTAbd

Lac des
Orr
¢¢ Amisk
PTAvm
Weyakwin ¢¢ Lake

73K -15
0 Beaupre Lake
Ennadai Structural Complex
73J
Klc
73I 63L
Waterhen
Iles Lake
Lake
(Central Hearne Craton) (2722 to 2681 Ma) MEADOW LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK Sled Orr
Goodsoil ! Lake Kss
Pierceland Km
AEsn Psammopelite to pelite; derived schist and gneiss !
Clarke Big Sandy
Osm
East Trout
Little Bear Lake Suggi
Km Lake Lake Windy
Lake
Leucogranodioritic to tonalitic orthogneiss; amphibolite rafts Mafic volcanic; minor felsic volcanic, wacke and iron -30 Montreal Lake Lake
ARgg
(ca. 2.7 to 2.5 Ga) AEv
formation (2708 to 2681 Ma) Map Symbols 0 Green Lake
CLARENCE-STEEPBANK LAKES
N

!
PROV. PARK
60 Osm Namew
ARg Tonalite to granodiorite; derived gneiss and migmatite (2722 Klc McKenzie
A

Granite to granodiorite; derived orthogneiss (2680 to 2580 Ma) AEttg Lake

to 2681 Ma) Kuc Lake
Lake
60
-1500 Elevation contour of Precambrian basement relative to mean sea level in metres
E

63K
Quartz monzodiorite to gabbro; derived gneiss (in part 2650 inferred structural contact between Central and Southern Hearne cratons Kmr Kss
ARbm STEELE NARROWS Meadow Lake ! Green Kingsmere
150 Osw
C H

to 2575 Ma) PROV. PARK Meadow NARROW HILLS

Geological contact (defined or approximate) Lake
Lake Lake
PROVINCIAL PARK Pinebluff
Southern Hearne Craton (2812 to 2529 Ma) Tu Klc Cowan White Swan
ARbd Norite-diorite-gabbro (in part 2639 to 2637 Ma) 54˚ ! Loon Lake
Makwa Delaronde
Crean
Lakes
Lake
Swan River Intrusive Suite (2562 to 2560 Ma): Diorite, Late fault or fault system: brittle to semi-brittle (brittle-ductile), in some cases overprinting
! Lake Lake Cumberland
AHdi
R

Lake
monzodiorite, anorthosite; minor gabbro PRINCE ALBERT CUMBERLAND HOUSE 54˚
Garnetiferous diatexite (granitic to tonalitic, and pelitic older shear zones; defined, inferred in Athabasca and Phanerozoic basins MAKWA LAKE Klc
A

ARd NATIONAL PARK Sl Lake PROV. PARK

precursors) Swan River Intrusive Suite (2562 to 2560 Ma): Layered PROV. PARK
AHbd leucogabbro to gabbro-norite; diorite and ultramafic rocks; Km
¢ ¢¢¢¢¢¢¢ ¢¢
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Waskesiu Bittern CANDLE LAKE ! Cumberland House

Intermediate to mafic volcanic rocks; intrusive equivalents; Early thrust fault or shear zone: generally inclined with mainly horizontal translation, width Lake
White Gull
iv
er
ARvm includes Zengle Lake gabbro (2529 Ma) Klc Lake PROV. PARK R
amphibolite (>2575 Ma) up to kilometre-scale, generally early tectonic history, placed in basal part of thrust zone Lake
E

AHg
N

Migmatitic psammopelite to pelite and derived anatectic Migmatitic granite to granodiorite complex Multiply-reactivated shear zone: generally subvertical, but some moderately inclined with 55 Candle
ARsn Klp Big River !
Da
granite (in part >2639 Ma) variable or unknown translation, width up to kilometre-scale Klp Lake
Chitek Chitek Lake Km Kuc
Cut Beaver
55
! -45 n
ARgn Tonalitic orthogneiss (2740 Ma) AHt Granodiorite to leucotonalite (2664 Ma) Lake Kuc 0 he
wa Lake
Provincial highway Provincial/national park Candle Lake ! 0 a tc
sk
FORT PITT Sa
Granite, augen granite, leucogranite; derived gneiss (2680 to 52˚ GREAT BLUE HERON
PROV. PARK Kbr ! St.Walburg
Leoville
AHag 2520 Ma); includes 2580 to 2566 Ma Lueaza River Granitoid Railway 62M National Topographic System (NTS) grid with map Brightsand PROVINCIAL PARK Km
Helene !
Suite and lesser Proterozoic granites sheet labels and latitude/longitude designations Lake Turtle
Tobin Lake
-102˚ Kbr ! Paradise Hill Lake Lake
Tonalite-granodiorite gneiss and migmatite complex; !Spruce Lake
Kbr
AHfn granitic gneiss (2812 to 2565 Ma); lesser Paleoproterozoic Dominion Land Survey grid with Township (N-S)
River 60
and Range (E-W) designations 73F 73G 73H
Tobin Lake

63E 63F
granites Kbr Midnight ! Debden ! Paddockwood !
25 -60 Christopher Lake
! Choiceland Love
Lake Birch 0 Smeaton
! Klc
! !
Town/village
MESO ARCHEAN

City ! Lake Meath Park

Weirdale
Kbr ! Turtleford Witchekan ! !
Lake
Kbr ! White Fox
50 Glaslyn !
Monzogranite to tonalite; derived gneiss (>3385 to 2941 Ma; LLOYDMINSTER ! Mervin ! Canwood
ARgt Spiritwood ! 50
includes Lodge Bay granite) Shell Lake
!
Nipawin
!
Medstead !
Marshall ! Codette ! Carrot River !
PRINCE Codette
WILDCAT HILL
Edam Klp Holbein PROV. PARK
! Shellbrook ! ! ALBERT Lake
Kbr Lashburn ! Kbr Pontrilas !
Aylsham
Vawn -75 !
! ! THE BATTLEFORDS 0
Waseca !
Maidstone
PROV. PARK ! Rabbit Lake ! Parkside Kuc -150
Klp
Lithostructural Domains of the Canadian Shield and Phanerozoic Structural Elements Jackfish Arborfield Kuc
r
ve

53˚ Lake !
Ri

Paynton Meota ! Klc

! Ridgedale Leaf
! Zenon Park !
Metinota !
! Leask Lake 53˚
Klp Weldon
-110° Birch Hills
-102° Phanerozoic Basin The Rae and Hearne provinces, comprising Archean basement rocks and overlying Proterozoic No Paddling
!
Nolan 60° 45 r th !
platformal cover sequences, are part of the western Churchill Structural Province and are separated Marsden Kbr Lake
! Marcelin er Kinistino
ne

Train Dodge Ennadai -90 Riv !

Zo

!
Zemlak Not subdivided from each other by the enigmatic Snowbird tectonic zone (STZ). The Rae and Hearne cratons are 0 FORT CARLTON 45
(ST hear

! Beatty
Beaverlodge Neilburg
Ashe
PROV. PARK St. Louis! Mistatim Hudson Bay
dominated by Archean rocks and are flanked by the Paleoproterozoic Taltson Orogen to the west and
Z)
L. S

Tantato Lake ! !
Watrous and Wynyard domes (Punnichy Arch) and Molanosa Dome Star City Valparaiso !
ck

Duck
Trans-Hudson Orogen to the east. The Sask craton underlies much of the southeastern Shield but is
Bla

Lake Athabasca Mudjatik Manitou ! Tisdale

e (Early Cretaceous, Mannville) Lake Klp
Blaine Lakes
! Blaine Lake Lake
! !
-30
er S hear
Zon
Black only exposed in small tectonic windows. It is structurally overlain by Paleoproterozoic volcano- MELFORT 0
se Riv ! Domremy
n

Grea Lake
plutonic arc rocks and derived clastic sedimentary rocks of the Reindeer Zone. These rocks formed in
! Duck Lake Klp
wa

Sparky Coal Basin (Early Cretaceous) Cut Knife

!
NORTH Krydor !
he

! Hafford Yellow Creek

tc

an oceanic environment as the Rae-Hearne, Sask, and Superior (exposed in central Canada) cratons Battleford
a

! Rockhaven BATTLEFORD ! ! Bjorkdale Kuc

sk

Aastrobleme
Carswell
Swift Current Platform (Jurassic) Laird Wakaw
Sa

!
Pasfield
Wollaston converged prior to amalgamating during the Trans-Hudson orogeny. The Canadian Shield in Denholm
! Speers Redberry
! Klp !
Lake Richard Lake Rosthern Lake
Lake Saskatchewan has been further subdivided into a number of domains distinguished by rocks with !
Shaunavon Shelf (Sandstone, Jurassic) distinct lithological and/or structural characteristics (Saskatchewan Geological Survey, 2003).
!
Wakaw !
Kb Ruddell Waldheim St. Brieux
Clearwater Kbr ! ! Basin ! GREENWATER LAKE Porcupine Plain
Orosirian to Calymmian rocks of the Athabasca Supergroup are contained in the current geographical
an

Athabasca Basin Carragana

ew

Maymont PROV. PARK !

)

Lake
Z

Kbr !
ST

remnant called the Athabasca Basin. Sediments that formed these rocks were deposited
tch

73C
!

63C
(

Middle !
ne

Cree
Athabasca Supergroup (Proterozoic)
a

! Weekes

63D
Tabbernor Fault Zone

Greenwater
Zo

unconformably on rocks of the western Churchill Structural Province.. The major lineaments, shown
sk

Lake 40 St. Benedict Lake

r

Sa

Adanac Hague

73B 73A
ea

Peter Reindeer Kb Radisson !

Taltson
Sh

on the Canadian Shield, are the traces of a selection of major structures that include multiply- ! Hepburn ! Alvena ! Lake
Lake Lake Evesham
er

Rae Province Hearne Province Reindeer Zone ! Lake Ranch Echo

Riv

reactivated shear zones, thrusts, and brittle to semi-brittle faults. ! Unity Keppel ! ! Cudworth Middle Lake
PORCUPINE HILLS AREA 40
gin

Wollaston an Wilkie
Radisson Klp
! Lenore Lake Lake
Vir

m !
Mudjatik ha Lake ! Archerwill PROV. PARK
at Beaverlodge Ennadai Flin Flon Kb
Borden -105 Pilger ! Lake Naicam !
e

!
n

W The surface of the Precambrian basement below the Phanerozoic exhibits many structural features ! Cando ! 0 Buffer Lake Lenore
Zo

Scott Nut
A
Gow Lake Macklin ! Round Lake
ear

A Deep Bay Kb Osler Lake ! Klp

th

Clearwater Mudjatik Glennie that have been identified through seismic and well data (Kent and Christopher, 1994; Christopher, Aroma
Sh

Dalmeny Houghton
u

! Muskiki Lake
So

! Primate
alls

! Prud'homme
ne

Spalding
2003). Many are dome-like features with positive relief that may simply be resistant erosional Lake Langham ! Aberdeen
le F

Kbr Little
sto

Denzil Vonda ! Lake Annaheim

Dodge Peter Lake Kisseynew Lake !
ge

! Warman
ed

! Mann
n

remnants, while others are reactivated fault blocks that affected facies distribution of overlying strata ! Kbr -45
tte

! Nut
on
Ne

Arelee
! ! Rose Valley 0
-1200
Ro

Kb
R

Peter Pond Martensville ! Lake

Wollaston La Ronge Lake
La

Lake Nolan through time. Many of these features are expressed as orthogonal lineaments coincident with the Salvador
!
Klp Bruno Ponass
Kisseynew ! Klp
Rottenstone
basement structural fabric. Some have also been recognized at surface, like the Missouri Coteau, ! ! Lake
Glennie Taltson Landis
Kbr
while others, such as the Swift Current Platform, are only recognized through isopach mapping or ! Kb ! St. Gregor !
Deschambault Flin Wathaman Fosston Endeavour !
Lac La Lake Flon
Tantato trends in structure maps. !
Luseland Tramping Lake Tramping Asquith Kb
SASKATOON Humboldt !
Muenster ! ! Kelvington
Ronge ! !
Train Tectonic inlier Lake Meacham Englefeld ! Watson
Kinley
Hearne craton The Meadow Lake Escarpment marks the northern erosional edge of Ordovician-Silurian carbonates, 52˚ 35 !
Handel Biggar Perdue ! ! Klp Lintlaw
ent ! Kb Kbr Kbr
sca rpm Amisk Zemlak north of which Middle Devonian strata infill the erosional low on top of Cambrian sandstones (Haidl, ! ! ! 35
ke E Lake Tectonic Windows !
Leney Vanscoy
Quill Lake 52˚
d ow L
a Molanosa 1989). The Punnichy Arch (comprising the Watrous and Wynyard domes) is a basement-controlled Springwater
!
Mea Sask craton Kelfield ! Elstow
Dome antiformal complex, which extends along the northern solution edge of the Middle Devonian Prairie Colonsay ! Leroy
! ! Kbr Clavet
! !
!
Sturgis
Major lineament Evaporite salt beds and represents the northern rim of the Williston Basin. The Winnipegosis Reef Kerrobert ! Viscount -60 Preeceville !
! Delisle ! ! Wadena Stenen Arran
Major ! Ruthilda Bradwell ! 0 Hyas
Trend, marking the southwestern edge of the Prairie Evaporite, and the Elbow-Weyburn Linear, ! Plunkett ! Pelly !
Dissolution edge of Prairie Evaporite Formation Tu ! Allan ! Jansen Quill
! !
Saskatchewan Rive
r delineating the eastern margin of the Swift Current Platform, both parallel the surface expression of Guernsey
Norquay !
(ticks on side where salt is preserved) Dodsland
! Lake
the Missouri Coteau. The Swift Current Platform, a dome-like feature reactivated through time, is a !
Plenty Tessier PIKE LAKE Blackstrap Lakes
Margo Kbr DUCK MOUNTAIN
an Kb ! Zelma Lanigan
A ! Lake ! Tu PROV. PARK
ew Astrobleme, with name region of thinning Devonian strata and has undergone numerous vertical fluctuations throughout the ! ! PROV. PARK Shields Little ! Invermay
ch Dundurn ! !
at Coleville Kb Goose Jansen
Sa
sk Phanerozoic, acting as a depositional basin during the Middle Jurassic. The Shaunavon Shelf Thode ! Young
Manitou ! Wynyard
! Harris ! Lake Lake ! !
demarcates the western flank of the Swift Current Platform and terminates the Middle Jurassic ! !
! Dafoe Foam Madge
th

Loverna BLACKSTRAP Rama

r
No

Sparky Coal Manitou Beach !

Shaunavon Sandstone facies. The Molanosa Dome is another basement-controlled feature that PROV. PARK Elfros Lake -75
Basin ! 0 ! Lake
! Smiley Buchanan
h

remained tectonically active through much of the Phanerozoic, acting as a paleo-upland during
ut

!
So

30 ! ! Leslie
deposition of Cretaceous strata. The Sparky coal basin represents an area during the Early Cretaceous, Kiyiu Herschel Zealandia Lockwood Kutawagan GOOD SPIRIT LAKE ! Canora
! Watrous ! ! PROV. PARK Good Spirit
30
Lake ! Hanley Boulder Veregin
Quill where peat growth was equilibrated with sea-level rise for an extended period, leading to the Devil's Foam Lake Sheho Kamsack

72N
Lake !
Watrous Lakes Marengo Rosetown
Lake Tu Lake !
development of broad depositional flats and the subsequent formation of coal. The northeast- Flaxcombe ! Conquest
Lake Kmr
Whitewood !
Dome ! Sovereign Bounty Wishart
trending, basement-controlled Torquay-Rocanville Trend in southeast Saskatchewan coincides with ! Netherhill ! Kb

72O 72P 62M 62N

! ! Lake !
Last Mountain Wynyard Milden Outlook Kenaston Insinger !
down-warped stratigraphy and a series of salt sinks. It also parallels and is possibly coincident with ! ! West Bend Klp
A Elb
Lake Dome Kindersley
! Brock ! ! ! ! ! Nokomis Klp !
Elbow ow
-W the northern projection of the Weldon-Brockton-Froid-Fromberg fault zone from the U.S. portion of ! Alsask
Broderick
Diefenbaker
ey
bu the Williston Basin (Christopher, 1961; Gerhard et al., 1987). Tu Glenside
!
! !
Lake
rn
Lin
Bad
Barber Milden
Stockwell Hawarden Simpson Semans ! Theodore Tu Togo
ea ! Raymore
r Lake Lake Quinton Ebenezer
W Lake Lake ! ! ! Rhein
Old Wives inn ! Punnichy Horse
y- Dinsmore ! Lake
Lake M
iss
ip
eg ua le
rq vil Mantario Wiseton ! Bladworth Imperial ! ! Springside
Maple Creek ou os
ri C is R
To can d ! !
! Macrorie ! Lestock
Lake -90 Stornoway Of The
o n Snipe ! ! Strongfield -135 0
A
ee R Tre
Swift Current ot fT Eatonia Jedburgh !
ea
u re
Lake 0 ! Govan TOUCHWOOD HILLS POST ! Prairies
Platform
n d ! ! Kb Kbr PROV. PARK
!
Shaunavon Viewfield A Kb
Glidden
! Madison ! Davidson Etters Beach Leross
! Kelliher
Wroxton !
Shelf DANIELSON ! Last
! Jasmin Kbr YORKTON
25 Cabri Eston Plato ! PROV. PARK ! Loreburn !
Elrose 25
! Roussay
49° Lake Kbr
! Mountain ! Calder
! Ituna Lake
Coteau Beach
! Girvin -12 Hubbard
White Lake 00
Tu ! Elbow Liberty
! ! Duval ! Leech MacNutt
Bear ! !
Klp Saskatchewan Lucky Mistusinne
51˚ Klp Lake
!Birsay
! Goodeve Lake
u th Kb Lake
! Strasbourg -1050
So Riv DOUGLAS Craik ! !Saltcoats
ROWAN'S RAVINE
er PROV. PARK
! Penzance
! Crescent Lake 51˚
Sub-Phanerozoic and Sub-Athabasca Basin Geophysical Domains (a�er Kreis et al., 2004)
PROV. PARK ! Fenwood
Lucky Lake
! Bredenbury
Eyebrow Bulyea
Leader Kbr Kbr ! Markinch Cupar
Dysart !
Lake Aylesbury ! Holdfast
!
Kb Riverhurst !
Earl Grey Southey
! ! !
Lipton
MELVILLE Churchbridge
! ! ! ! !
Prelate !
Kb Sceptre
Tugaske Qu !
Kb
Duff Waldron Langenburg
-110° -110° ! -1500 'A
-102°
60°
-102°
60°
Rae Province Hearne Province Mendham ! Tu
Lancer
!
! Beechy ! pp
ell
Chamberlain
!
Dilke
!
!
! !
Nolan Nolan
Beaverlodge ĂƩůĞĨŽƌĚƐ Kyle Kfe LAKE e
Sunset Cove Silton ECHO VALLEY Bangor
Train Dodge Eyebrow Ri Balcarres ! Atwater
Train Dodge Ennadai ve ! ! PROV.PARK B-Say-Tah
Zemlak Ennadai Zemlak Clearwater Makwa 20
DIEFENBAKER
! r ! Findlater Buena Vista ! !
Beaverlodge Abbey ! Central Butte ! LAST MOUNTAIN HOUSE !
Beaverlodge
Tantato Tantato Taltson DƵĚũĂƟŬ Brownlee
Regina B. ! !
! PROV.L PARK ! !
Lebret Abernethy !
Killaly
20
Beaverlodge ! Lemberg Grayson
Beaverlodge ! SASKATCHEWAN LANDING Lumsden Beach Ft. Qu'Appelle Neudorf
Mudjatik Mudjatik Tantato Burstall ! PROV. PARK Kfe ! Craven
Fishing ! Sandy Beach !
!
! ! Gerald
Zemlak Zemlak Shackleton Buffalo ! Dubuc
Kettlehut Keeler ! Bethune ! KATEPWA POINT ! Stockholm Esterhazy Yarbo !
Reindeer Zone (includes Sask craton) Klp
! Pound Kb Lakes
CROOKED LAKE
!
Beaverlodge Beaverlodge Kbr Beaver Flat
! Lake Katepwa Beach PROV. PARK !
Tantato Edenwold
Tantato Clam Lake Cabri !
Marquis
Lake
! ! ! Kbr
PROV. PARK ! Spy Hill
Carswell !
Sun Valley BUFFALO POUND Disley
!
Carswell
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0

! Stewart Valley !
Kbr Kbr
-150

PROV. PARK r Melville Beach West End Tantallon

Qu'A
Flin Flon p
Ri
ve

72K
pelle
Mudjatik Mudjatik Kb ! Pennant !
Qu'Appelle
! !
Glennie Tuxford

72J 72I 62L 62K

! Fox Valley 0
Mclean ! ! Indian Head Round
-150 REGINA
!
on

Taltson Richmound
Humboldt
on

Taltson ! Lake
st

Tu
st

la

Caronport Pilot Butte

la

ol

Chaplin
ke

Kisseynew ! Success
ol

Sintaluta
ke

Freefight Ernfold !
W

! Mortlach
W

La

Hazlet !
Klp
La

Herbert ! Balgonie !
r

Morse !
te
r

Smeaton Lake Rush Lake Grand Coulee

te

Ingebrigt ! ! Wolseley
Pe

! Grenfell
Pe

Taltson Taltson !
! Belle Plaine Pense ! !
ZŽƩĞŶƐƚŽŶĞ Lake Chaplin ! Broadview !
Clearwater

-1350 Waldeck !
Clearwater

Welwyn
ith

ith

Wollaston Wollaston Lake ! -13 ! Rocanville

Wapawekka-Estevan
ol

ol

! 50 ! Whitewood
th

th

Mudjatik Kb !
Ba

Ba

Mudjatik ge ge 15 Antelope Kb
n Wathaman Big Stick
an

an

n o Vibank
Ro aR MOOSE JAW
m

e am

La L Golden Prairie Lake 15

Kb SWIFT Drinkwater -1500
a

Weyburn Lake ! Wapella

ton ath

ton ath

! ! Odessa
W

!
CURRENT
e

! Kendal
Wyoming Province Superior Province Neidpath
ns
ns

Kbr ! Montmartre
tte

Kb !
tte

Glenavon
Assiniboia
Ro

Glennie Glennie ƵĐŬDŽƵŶƚĂŝŶ !

Ro

! Rouleau ! Moosomin
Mudjatik Mudjatik Bitter
Kb Crane Lake Webb Kbr !
Sources for imagery Kisseynew
'ƌĞĂƚ&ĂůůƐdĞĐƚŽŶŝĐŽŶĞ Kbr Lake !
! Sedley
Kisseynew ! !
Tompkins ! Tch Hodgeville Shamrock ! Coderre Briercrest Kb
Old Wives Kipling
e

In 2004, Kreis et al. used provincial total field aeromagnetic and Bouguer Gull Lake
Lak
e

Pelican ! Wilcox ! !
Lak

Pelican Magnetic: Geological Survey of Canada, ! Reid !

50˚ Tch Francis -1650 Windthorst Fleming
m

!
Window Window gravity maps, aided by seismic data, to subdivide the sub-Phanerozoic ! Lake !
m

Cla

Open File 7799, 2016, 1 sheet e Carmichael

e ni
Cla

ni Flin Flon en
Flin Flon Lake
en Gl Precambrian rocks into a number of geophysical domains based on Tch
Gl https://doi.org/10.4095/297337 !
Piapot Avonlea
50˚
(Open Access) extrapolation of major features on the exposed Shield. The Clearwater Pelletier
! Kennedy
!
Neville
an

an

Milestone Osage
Makwa Makwa and Taltson domains of the Rae craton were extended to the southwest. Lake Gooseberry -1650
ham

ham

! ! ! !
Gravity: Geological Survey of Canada, The Mudjatik and Wathaman domains of the Hearne craton were also Maple Creek Kbr -1650 Mossbank Lake Wawota
Wat

Wat

Vanguard
P

! ! Lang !
P

Open File 8081, 2017, 1 sheet

NAC

Smeaton extrapolated southwestward, whereas the Wollaston Domain was 10 ! Spring Valley !
NAC

! -1800 Fairlight Maryfield

https://doi.org/10.4095/299561 Smeaton
subdivided into the Makwa and Battlefords domains based on magnetic Gravelbourg Fillmore Moose MOOSE MOUNTAIN
! Lake !
PROV. PARK Kenosee Lake ! 10
(Open Access) Flin Flon Kfe Mountain Kb
Flin Flon susceptibility. The Assiniboia Domain was identified as an entity distinct Kb
!
Palmer Mazenod
!
Of The Kfe
!
Kb -1650 Yellow Grass Creelman Lake
from the Battlefords Domain based on the disruption of magnetic Kb Rivers ! !
signatures that may mark the Great Falls Tectonic Zone, which separates Admiral Cadillac
Ponteix
Tch ! Aneroid Kb McTaggart Heward
the Wyoming and Hearne cratons. A number of ~1.76 Ga post-tectonic, ! ! !
-1950
Battlefords ! !
Battlefords anorogenic high-level granitic and extrusive rocks comprising the Swift Hazenmore CANNINGTON MANOR
Tch
Shaunavon ! Kincaid ! Lafleche WEYBURN Stoughton
Shoe PROV. PARK
Current Anorogenic Province (SCAP; Collerson et al., 1989; white diagonal Kbr
CYPRESS HILLS
Dollard ! ! ! Kb -1950 ! Kisbey Arcola Carlyle
! Meyronne Limerick Lake Pangman ! ! ! !
Humboldt hatch) further disrupt the aeromagnetic pattern in this area. The Diefen- PROV. PARK ! ! -2100 Forget
Humboldt
Kbr ! Assiniboia
baker Domain corresponds to the Reindeer magnetic quiet zone (RMQZ; Kbr Tr
!
Khedive
Kfe !
Manor !
! Antler
Kb Tr Ogema Kfe
72F
Burwash et al., 1993) and represents the southern extension of the Twm Eastend Kfe Redvers
Di ! ! Kfe
an a-

ef
an a-

Di Rottenstone Domain; it overlaps with the broadly correlative North -1950

Duck Mountain

en
tev kk

Kb
tev kk

Duck Mountain

ef
ba -2250
Es awe

en
Es awe

ke Tr
American Central Plains conductivity anomaly (NACP; Reitzel et al., 1970;
72G 62E 62F
Cypress

72H
r( ba
p

-1350 Montague Halbrite

p

ke
Wa

RM Hardy
Wa

QZ
r(
RM white horizontal hatch) and occurs along the boundary between the 5 Lake Viceroy
! Benson !
) QZ Kbr Mankota
!
!
Glentworth ! ! Storthoaks
) Hearne and Sask cratons, the latter of which has been subdivided by ! Kfe ! !
Twelve ! Lake Ceylon Radville Alida 5
Robsart Mile St. Victor Willow Bunch Colgate Goodwater Lampman !
SCAP SCAP magnetic characteristics into the Smeaton, Humboldt and Weyburn Consul Lake Willow Bunch ! Lake Bengough ! ! ! ! Midale !
!
alls ne alls ne domains. Structurally overlying rocks of the Wapawekka-Estevan Domain Kfe ST. VICTOR PETROGLYPHS
at F Zo at F Zo !
Gre tonic Gre tonic Newton Kfe ! Wood Mountain PROV. PARK Kfe
Tec Weyburn Tec Weyburn flank the Sask craton and probably represent a boundary zone between Kfe Macoun
Kbr Lake Tr !
the craton and juvenile rocks of the exposed Glennie and Flin Flon Val Marie Kfe Salt Alameda
Assiniboia Fife !
Assiniboia
domains to the north and east, respectively, where the craton has also Frontier
Climax ! Tr WOOD MOUNTAIN POST Lake -2550
Oxbow
! Twm Lake ! Glen Ewen
! PROV. PARK ! Tribune Frobisher Gainsborough
49° 49° been overprinted by the Tabbernor fault zone. The Duck Mountain Bracken
Tr -2400 ! ! Carnduff
! !
0 ! !
Domain represents a transition zone between juvenile rocks of the -135 Twm
Rockglen
Fife Lake
Big Muddy Carievale
Kb !
! Minton Tr Bienfait
Reindeer Zone and predominantly Archean rocks of the Superior craton Lake Gladmar Lake Alma Torquay
Residual Total Magnetic Field Map Bouguer Gravity Map to the east, and may be correlative with the Superior Boundary Zone in 1
!
! ! ! ESTEVAN
!

Manitoba. 49˚
Kfe GRASSLANDS ! - 2700 Boundary Tr 1
Kfe NATIONAL PARK Coronach Tr !
30 Twm Dam Roche Percee
-110˚ 25 Tr 49˚
20 -2850 Reservoir North Portal
30W1
!
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-108˚ 10 5 10 5
-102˚ -101˚30’
1W3 30 25 20 15
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