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Ogilvie Mountains breccia (OMB) is in Early (?) to Late Proterozoic rocks of the Coal Creek Inlier, southern Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon. Host rocks are the Wernecke Supergroup (Fairchild Lake, Quartet and Gillespie Lake groups) and lower Fifteenmile group. Ogilvie Mountains breccia crops out discontinuously along two east-trending belts called the Northern Breccia Belt (NBB) and the Southern Breccia Belt (SBB). Individual bodies of OMB vary from dike and sill-like to pod-like. The NBB coincides with a north side down reverse fault—an inferred ruptured anticline—called the Monster fault. The SBB coincides with a north side down fault called the Fifteenmile fault. The age of OMB is constrained by field relationships and galena lead isotope data. The age of OMB formation is between 1.45 and 0.90 Ga. Hydrothermal alteration has locally overprinted OMB and introduced silica, hematite and sulphide minerals. Rare earth element chemistry reflects a lack of mantle or deep-seated igneous process in the formation of OMB. However, this may be only an apparent lack because flooding by a large volume of sedimentary material could obscure a REE pattern indicative of another source. This thesis is available online at https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0052352. This thesis is available at the EMR library – QE446.Y8 L36.

Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of eastern Ogilvie Mountains area, central Yukon (NTS 116A/10) including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.

Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of southeastern Ogilvie Mountains area, central Yukon (NTS 116A/10) including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.

Geological map including geological cross sections, mineral occurrences and preliminary isotopic age determinations.

Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of "Dolores Creek" area, Wernecke Mountains, central Yukon (NTS 106C/14) including geological cross-sections and mineral occurrences.

Surficial geological map (1:50,000 scale) of Matson Creek and Ogilvie map areas, central Yukon (NTS 115N/9 and 115O/12) including marginal notes on surficial geology and geomorphology.