Churchill Craton - Murmac Bay Group, Western Churchill Province

Murmac Bay Group, Western Churchill Province

The Murmac Bay Group exposed in the southwestern half of the Western Churchill Craton, near Uranium City, Saskatchewan consists of a mixed package of Precambrian volcanic and sedimentary rocks These rocks sit on ca. 3 Ga granitoids and have been affected by several deformational and metamorphic events.

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