When continents collide
During the past several years geologists have been coming to the Rupert area to probe deep into the earths crust. If I understand it, the Rupert area is what the Himalaya mountains area may look like once all those lofty peaks are eroded down to their roots. In both scenarios the mountains results from collisions between terranes.
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| Lithoprobe | Atlas + home page | Trans canda project; What's under the crust? Tutorial on seismic reflecting; slide set Growth of Canada or colliding terranes in geologic time |
| Accrete Home page | Abstracts maps news | Field trips locally in 94 & 95. graphic coastal shear zone near PR; larger scale map 46K 16 technical fall 96 abstracts |
| Accrete | UBC summary | abstract: Skeena Belt focus |
| Snorkle | transect map | Stewart area and east |
Continents colliding, mountains eroding away to mere stubs; so what?
If you're not intrigued with reconstructing mountains, then what about finding gold?
Take the most productive mine in the area: Eskay Creek: the latest models see it as originating from
hot springs and volcanoes under the shallow ocean when the terranes collided. Once you know that
you begin to look for similar tyupe formations.
| Skeena Nass | mines & terranes | narrative to 1995 mineral potential Skeena-Nass; w map all showings |
| BC Deposit Models | Intrusive hosted Gold | Sulphurets District (near Eskay Ck); Red Mountain; |
| BC Deposit Models | Mesothermal gold | Snip & Johnny Mountain |
| BC Deposit Models | Shallow Submarine | Eskay Creek and similar type gold |