scholarly journals Quaternary Stratigraphy and History of Quesnel and Cariboo River Valleys, British Columbia: Implications For Placer Gold Exploration

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
J J Clague
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Placer Gold ◽  
Gold Exploration ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
History Of ◽  
River Valleys

Late Quaternary glacial and interglacial environments of the Nechako River - Cheslatta Lake area, central British Columbia

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Plouffe ◽  
V M Levson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Glacial Lakes ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Quaternary History

The Quaternary stratigraphy of the Nechako River – Cheslatta Lake area of central British Columbia is described and interpreted to reconstruct the late Quaternary history of the region. Exposures of glacial and nonglacial sediments deposited prior to the last glaciation (Fraser) are limited to three sites. Pollen assemblages from pre-Fraser nonglacial sediments at two of these sites reveal forested conditions around 39 000 BP. During the advance phase of the Fraser Glaciation, glacial lakes were ponded when trunk glaciers blocked some tributary valleys. Early in the glaciation, the drainage was free in easterly draining valleys. Subsequently, the easterly drainage was blocked either locally by sediments and ice or as a result of impoundment of the Fraser River and its tributaries east of the study area. Ice generally moved east and northeast from accumulation zones in the Coast Mountains. Ice flow was influenced by topography. Major late-glacial lakes developed in the Nechako River valley and the Knewstubb Lake region because potential drainage routes were blocked by ice.

Locating hidden channels for placer gold exploration in the Cariboo District, British Columbia, Canada: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 61-79
Author(s):  
Detlef Eberle ◽  
Dennis Bastian ◽  
Norbert Ebel ◽  
Rüdiger Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Placer Gold ◽  
Gold Exploration

Quaternary stratigraphy and glacial history of the Peace River valley, northeast British ColumbiaThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Geology of northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta: diamonds, shallow gas, gravel, and glaciers.

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 549-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory M.D. Hartman ◽  
John J. Clague
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Quaternary Sediments ◽  
Shallow Gas ◽  
Peace River ◽  
Last Glaciation ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Selection Of

Two Cordilleran and three Laurentide glacial advances are recorded in Quaternary sediments and landforms in the Peace River valley, northeast British Columbia. The advances are inferred from fluvial gravels, glaciolacustrine sediments, and tills within nested paleovalleys excavated during three interglaciations and from the distribution of granitoid clasts derived from the Canadian Shield. Till of the last (Late Wisconsinan) Laurentide glaciation occurs at the surface, except where it is overlain by postglacial sediments. The advance that deposited this till was the most extensive in the study area, and the only advance definitively recognized in western Alberta south of the study area. Late Wisconsinan Cordilleran till has not been found in the study area, but Cordilleran and Laurentide ice may have coalesced briefly during the last glaciation. Support for this supposition is provided by the inferred deflection of Laurentide flutings to the southeast by Cordilleran ice. The earliest Laurentide advance may have been the least extensive of the three Laurentide events recognized in the study area. Erratics attributed to this advance occur only east of the Halfway River – Beatton River drainage divide.

Quaternary stratigraphy of the Prophet River, northeastern British ColumbiaThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Geology of northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta: diamonds, shallow gas, gravel, and glaciers.

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Trommelen ◽  
Vic Levson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Oxbow Lake ◽  
Laurentide Ice Sheet ◽  
Glacial Sediments ◽  
Boreal Plains ◽  
Fluvial Terraces ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Floodplain Sediments

Exposures in the Prophet River valley in northeast British Columbia provide a unique glimpse into the Quaternary history of the northwest Canadian Boreal Plains. The region shows evidence of Late Wisconsinan Laurentide glaciation in the form of widespread till, containing abundant erratic clasts derived from the Canadian Shield. Vertical sections along the Prophet River expose non-glacial and advance glacial sediments below this till. Pre-Late Wisconsinan non-glacial or interglacial floodplain sediments are interbedded with fluvial gravels at many sites. Macrofossils within horizontally laminated organic-rich black clay and silt indicate deposition on the floodplain of the paleo-Prophet River within an oxbow lake. The climate during deposition is interpreted to be similar to present, supporting a dominantly spruce forest. Wood obtained from eight sites provided non-finite radiocarbon ages, and one sample provided an age of 49 300 ± 2000 BP, which is also considered non-finite. Glaciolacustrine clays and silts, deposited during impoundment of eastward-flowing drainage by the advance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) in the Late Wisconsinan, overlie the non-glacial sediments throughout the valley. A blanket of clast-poor, clay-rich till up to 20 m thick, and deposited by the LIS, drapes the glaciolacustrine sediments. Since deglaciation, the Prophet River has incised the valley and formed fluvial terraces at different levels above the modern river.

scholarly journals Quaternary Stratigraphy and History, Quesnel, British Columbia

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Clague
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Glacial Lakes ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
Valley Fills ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Sand And Gravel

ABSTRACT Thick Quaternary sediments at Quesnel, British Columbia, provide a record of the late Quaternary history of an area near the centre of the former Cordilieran Ice Sheet. These sediments, in part, fill stream valleys that were cut sometime prior to the Late Wisconsinan Fraser Glaciation. Of special note are (1) fluvial or glaciofluvial sand and gravel deposited by aggrading streams, perhaps in part during early Fraser time; (2) thick glaciolacustrine mud, sand, and diamicton laid down later as glaciers advanced across central British Columbia; and (3) glaciolacustrine sediments similar to (2), but deposited in an ice-dammed lake at the end of the Fraser Glaciation. The stratigraphy is punctuated by colluvial deposits that are products of landslides from valley walls at various times during the late Quaternary; this process continues to the present. During the Fraser Glaciation, glaciers from the Coast and Cariboo Mountains coalesced and flowed north over central British Columbia. Fraser Glaciation advance sediments and older Pleistocene deposits were partially removed by this ice sheet and the eroded remnants mantled with till. At the end of this glaciation, the Cordilieran Ice Sheet downwasted and receded southward along an irregular front across the study area. Large amounts of sediment were deposited in glacial lakes dammed by the southward-retreating ice. With complete déglaciation of the interior, glacial lakes drained and the present drainage system was established. At first, valleys were partially aggraded with sand and gravel, but later, streams dissected valley fills to produce a series of terraces at successively lower levels.

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