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Update on Yukon shale studies

Collaborator Tiffani Fraser (Yukon Geological Survey) has published an article in Yukon Exploration and Geology detailing all the shale-related research occurring across Yukon Territory, including research from our lab. The article can be accessed here. It is an exciting time for shale research in Yukon, with different research groups tackling diverse questions related to the basic geology and stratigraphy of a frontier area, early and mid-Paleozoic Earth history, and the genesis of exceptionally metalliferous Ni-Zn-Mo-PGE horizons.

Two researchers next to a river and rock face
Tom Boag (Stanford University) and Justin Strauss (Dartmouth College) collecting samples from Lower Ordovician ash beds in the Road River Group below (immediately east of) Aberdeen Falls, Peel River, Yukon