# Anvil Surficial Geology Field Form

Topo Position:
Plateau surface in valley bottom (till plain)

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Upper 33 cm - clay silt till; 33cm -56 cm fluvial sand


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Oxidation in ash; permafrost present nearby, sampled on game trail.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock at base of pit, oxidized.  Sampled on road, permafrost nearby. (Bagged rock sample for Lee).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled head scarp of small landslide in till; difficult to tell what was in-place in soil column.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
-sample dug on road; B-horizon mottled grey/oxidized colours; stratified, texture varies from silty sand (17-35) to calyey silty sand (35-43) to medium sand (43+); polished clast in sample.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Thick pockets of ash up to 20 cm thick.  Sampled on game trail.


Topo Position:
on streambank above tributary to N. Rose Creek

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
~25 m exposure on creek cut.  The landform is a Gp from outwash descending N. Rose Creek valley.  The outwash is approximately 6 m thick and the underlying till is approximately 20 m thick and descends to the creek floodplain.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Stratification in pit wall.  Texture varies between clayey sand near the top and a coarse sand near the bottom.

Description of Mineralized Clasts:
Noted a pocket of oxidation in till - wasn’t a clast.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road.  Upper 5-25 cm: silty sand (unit sampled).  Increasing sand with depth to coarse sand.  Duplicate sample JB99-114.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Outwash nearby.  Coarse sand pockets.  Coarse sand at top, below ash.


Topo Position:
top of ridge on low linear hill in middle of main valley

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Increasing coarse sand in matrix toward bottom.   Till has porous holes.  Unusual number of chert pebbles.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled in frost/flow boil.  Naturally disturbed.  Bubbly texture. (Formerly JB99-13, renumbered to insert control standard).


Topo Position:
Plateau surface in valley bottom, gently sloping NE.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled in frost boil, possibly due to clearing of road.  Sampled just east of camp, on road.  Some concentration of finer material at surface due to frost action.  Remainder is compact and homogeneous.  Numerous chert pebbles.

Bedrock:
1C - non-calcareous biotite muscovite schist


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
First 20 cm are finer texture.  Bottom is clayey sand.  Homogeneous soil profile, no A or B evident.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled at old exploration camp.  Pockets of oxidation present.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled till exposure on streamcut of 25 m till terrace, about 10 m up.  Pit total depth = 80 cm, 0-55 = colluviated till, with oxidized bands.  55+ = homogeneous till.  Numerous chert pebbles and oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sample dug in frost boil.  Porous bubbles present in matrix.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Apparent ash at 57+ cm, suggesting heavily cryoturbated soil.  Suspect till sampled (mostly clay), mottled-looking.  Numerous polished clasts.  Duplicate sample JB99-115.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
A-Horizon peaty/organic rich.  Sampled on game trail due to permafrost close to surface elsewhere.   Well-drained except over permafrost.  Till is apparently stratified between silty and gritty sand units with interspersed cobbles.  Larger clasts near surface.  Sampled silty sand material below A-horizon.  Black Spruce bark sample, CBH=59 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
25+ parent material.  Black Spruce bark sample, CBH=34cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Possibly minor loess (8 cm) below A-horizon.  Stratification:  outwash 30-70 cm; meltout till 70+ cm.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=34 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled just off cutline.  Pockets of oxidized individual clasts in meltout till.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=47 cm.


Topo Position:
Streamlined landform in upper Blind Ck valley.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Loose coarse sand 32-40 cm.  Compacted silty sand till 40+ cm.  No oxidation, but profile contains pinkish hue mottles, possibly from forest burn?  Black spruce bark sample CBH=38 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Ash is stained/oxidized.  Stratified parent material alternating between coarse sand (dominant) and silty fine sand from 20-70 cm.  70+ cm appears to be basal meltout till.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=50 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Pockets of ash 4-15 cm thick.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=39 cm.


Topo Position:
Landslide scarp on edge of meltwater channel.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Burn area cause of slumping.  Sampled a slump scarp approximately 2 m from former surface.  Sediment sampled may not be totally insitu, but is quite dense.  Appears to be overlain be a more water-washed unit.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Debris slide in till occurred following forest fire.  Coarse sand matrix with minor clay 24-44 cm (colluvium).  44+ cm sampled material.  Few oxidized clasts.


Topo Position:
Top of streamlined ridge on east side of Blind Creek valley.


Topo Position:
On streamlined ridge on east side of Blind Creek valley.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Dug into partial exposure near small lake, in burn area.  Landform may be an ice-meltout feature that occurred in the streamlined landform.  Compact till 20+ cm.


Topo Position:
Lower slopes of valley side on slightly raised landform.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Ash/B-horizon contact undulates, possibly due to frost action.  A-horizon is intermittent.  Small ash hummocks/bumps covering ground.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Undulating ash layer.  Ash hummocks/bumps covering ground indicating frost action.  Isolated oxidized clasts. (Formerly JB99-34, renumbered to insert control standard).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Ash pockets.  Sampled in frost boil, so no soil horizons.


Topo Position:
Streamlined ridge on eastern lower valley side

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Ash thickness varies; B-horizon staining varies


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
B-horizon is c.sand dominant; 47+ is till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Appears to be a regosol; 9-30 = stratified till/diamict; 30+ = organic rich diamict suggesting overturning by ice


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road.  Mixed ash/A-horizon from 3-23 cm.  Numerous angular phyllite shards.  Duplicate black spruce sample taken:  JB99-68, CBH=36 cm, sampled 2.6 m from pit;  JB99-125, CBH=34 cm, sampled 4 m from pit.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Dry area with large white spruce trees/old growth.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=67 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road/cutline.  Some evidence of colluviation by grittier lenses from 26-48 cm.  B-horizon staining is displaced.  Discontinous ash layer.  Mixed A/B horizon from 5-10 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on cutline/road (no detrital layer).  No obvious B-horizon.  Sandier layer from 10-28 cm.  Pockets of oxidation.  Black spruce bark sample CBH = 45 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on drill pad.  Mottled till varying between olive-grey and olive from 25-43 cm.  Parent material till from 43+.  Black spruce bark sample duplicate site:  JB99-72, CBH=45 cm;  JB99-120, CBH=48 cm.  Duplicate sample JB99-120.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Graphitic phyllite bedrock at 35+ cm.  Colour of till doesn't reflect local bedrock as would have been expected.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Mottled organic, oxidation and basal till from 10-65.  ?Intact basal till from 65-75.  No black spruce sample.  (Formerly JB99-75, renumbered to insert control standard).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Discontinuous  B-horizon due to colluviation.  Ash layer at 9-12 and 40-45 cm, mixed with organics and till.  Sampled pod of colluviated till between 24-30 cm.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=42.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sample medium from 15-27, pocket of till, with sandy lense above.  Ash shows up at bottom.  Oxidized staining.  Highly organic.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=27 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on cutline. A-horizon discontinuous.  Bedrock at 66+ cm.  Gravel from 28-42 cm, with backwater silts deposited above, in places, probably a fining upward sequence.  43-66 cm is till.  No black spruce bark sample taken.  Bedrock sample R-9 taken.

Bedrock:
5B - calcareous phyllite? on map, but seems more like graphitic phyllite.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Gully exposure 7-8 m high, with 1.5 m being colluviated.  3 m of outwash below 8 m may represent fluvial erosion and deposition between glacial max and readvance?  Till sampled at 5 m, with isolated oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Mudslide exposure.  Coarse outwash overlying till.  Isolated oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on cutline.  Mixed A-horizon and ash from 3-11 cm.  Isolated oxidation.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=25 cm.


Topo Position:
Till plain in Blind Creek valley bottom.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on exploration road, partly overgrown.  Boulders concentrated at top.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=30 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sandy gravel from 20-41 cm, below A-horizon.  Diamict from 41+ cm , probably colluviated, possibly meltout.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH=48 cm, about 10 m from pit.


Topo Position:
Mudslide scarp exposure on sideslope north of Swim Lake.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate sample JB99-121.  Two tills, buff-coloured overlying dark coloured, exposed in mudslide scarp.  Mixed ash, colluvium, organics and till from 16-33 cm.  Mixed organics and till from 39-45 cm.  Buff coloured colluviated till from 45-127 cm.  Mixed buff till and dark till from 127-150 cm.  Intact dark till from 150+ cm - sample medium for JB99-84.  Sample medium for JB99-84 (dup) was buff-coloured till:  Colour - 5Y5/3 (dry) olive; silty clayey sand texture; 55% matrix with more angular clasts than darker till.  Black spruce bark sample duplicate site:  CBH=63 cm.  Duplicate taken from same tree, immediately above first sample.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Distinct B-horizon.  Oxidation isolated to B-horizon.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
No Black Spruce sample; Bedrock at 53 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
26-34 cm:  more detrital; 34-53 cm:  mixed organics and parent material; 54+ cm:  colluviated till with minor organic stringers and isolated clasts; some polished clasts present.  Balck Spruce sample:  CBH=62 cm, almost 10 cm away from pit.

Bedrock:
5B - Calcareous phyllite, metabasite, chloritic phyllite - vangorda formation


Topo Position:
Small plateau off south side of Blind Cub plateau

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
32 cm Bedrock; very oxidized  B-horizon; weathered bedrock surface.

Bedrock:
5B - Calcareous Phyllite - looks somewhat graphitic


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on cutline; 26+ high density till blanket/veneer; minor oxidized bands; angular clasts of graphitic phyllite near oxidized bands.


Topo Position:
Gentle southern side slope of Blind Cub Plateau

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Old Growth forest - high permafrost table - tough sampling area.  22-35:  more detrital, 35+ till.  Black Spruce sample:  CBH = 59 cm.  Angular clasts are common.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock at 30+ cm, surface is weathered and fractured.  Numerous bedrock/local clasts in till.  Duplicate sample JB99-118.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
B-horizon has faint hue, organic bands in B-horizon; angular and subangular clasts are more common, lost of phyllite present, numerous oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Recent landslide scarp; depth = 1.1 m from the top of scarp; sampled till underlying buff coloured regional till; appears to be fewer granites in (?) glacial maximum till, and fewer boulders; colour reflects underlying geology; isolated oxidized clasts.  Duplicate sample JB99-117.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Grittier material near-top, below ash, about 8cm thick, suggesting meltout environment.  Isolated oxidized pockets.  Black spruce sample: CBH = 39cm.  Sampled at fork in road (w. fork).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road; B-horizon is a coarser sand layer; 27+ till; individual clasts are oxidized; CBH (circumference at Breast Height) = 40 cm; striae measured on outcrop.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on Road; ash layer intermittent; 12-17 cm is also A-horizon , 17-22 cm is parent material, 22-26 cm is A-horizon, 26-38 cm is mottled A and parent material, 38+ is parent material; graphitic phyllite clast and a few angular clasts present.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
A = Ah, B = Bht?, Pockets of ash, oxidation pockets; CBH = 35


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock at 30+ cm; Black spruce sample:  CBH = 50 cm

Bedrock:
5C - Calcareous Phyllite, metabasite, chloritic phyllite


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
7-10:  mixed ash/organic; 10-15:  organic; 15-26:  mixed parent material and organics, possibly alluvium; 26+ till.  Minor oxidation in mottled lenses.  CBH of Black spruce sample = 47 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
36+ till; CBH = 43.  Ash thickness is variable.  (Formerly JB99-56, renumbered to insert control standard).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Isolated oxidized clasts, concentration of clasts near surface probably due to frost heavy; abundance of graphitic phyllite shards; CBH Black Spruce sample = 42 cm


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Boulder layer below A - horizon (and cobbles).  33+ mottled coloured till varying between dark olive grey and olive; minor oxidized clasts.  Balck spruce bark sample CBH = 36 cm


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road; 25% ice in till, lenses of ice are concentrated within fissile bands.  Balck spruce bark sample = 37 cm.

Bedrock:
5A - graphitic phyllite - on contact with 3G non-calcareous phyllite


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
14-20 = till, 20-28 = detrital, 28-30 = ash, 30+ mottled till with organic bands; boulders were near the top due to frost heaving.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road/game trail; Black spruce bark sample:  CBH = 44cm; Organic lenses at 40-53 cm and 61-64 cm likely due to cryoturbation, rest of profile is till; graphitic phyllite shards, isolated oxidized clasts, duplicate site.  Keno does handstand!!  Duplicate sample JB99-119.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
CBH = 40cm; 14-36 till; 36-62 mixed till and organic lenses.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled at crossing of 2 cutlines.  Abundance of graphitic phyllite shards, isolated oxidation.  Balck spruce sample, CBH = 54cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Lots of Phyllite; CBH of Black Spruce is 38 cm


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Mottled oxidized/gleyed on one corner of pit proximal to low/wet area.  Lots of grit and small pebble sized calsts.  Micro-lenses of oxidation, concentrating in fissile structure.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH = 37cm


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Fuck all to say; CBH = 40 cm; mostly phyllite clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock from 39+ cm.  Oxidized B-horizon.


Topo Position:
Top of low streamlined ridge, near Blind Creek.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sandier pockets present in matrix.  Oxidation concentrated in pockets and isolated clasts.  Larger pebbles concentrated near surface.  Graphitic clasts in darker till.  Buff-coloured till from 17-39 cm.    Very dark grey till (sample medium) from 39+ cm.  Apparent zone of mixing between the two tills - buff coloured till apparently entrained some of lower, darker till.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on cutline - poor soil profile.  Mottled till (cryoturbated?)  Black spruce bark sample CBH=47 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
12 - 33 cm: sandy till.  33+ cm: more clay-rich till with isolated oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Isolated oxidized clasts.  Duplicate sample JB99-122.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
*Not a till - do not include in total statistics.  20+ cm is organics/oxidized layers/silty layers = alluvium.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Reworked/retransported diamict (till?)  Dominantly grit sand with minor silt and clay.  Debris flow/alluvial reworking.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=39 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on levee landform, about 3 m high.  18+ cm:  mixed A and debris-flow material, dominantly debris flow.  Ash drapes levee landform.  Source material appears to be till.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH=43 cm.


Topo Position:
Low streamlined ridge near Piswick Pond.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Pit dug on exploration road.  No black spruce.  Isolated oxidized clasts in pit.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
16-33 cm:  mixed A-horizon/ash - intermittent.  33+ cm:  Basal till.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=30 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
20-48 cm: till.  48+ cm:  till mixed with organics.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH=28 cm.  High grit component in clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
12-20 cm: mixed A-horizon and till.  20-46 cm:  basal till.  Ash present at bottom of pit.  Clasts predominantly grit-size.  Some polished pebbles.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH=36 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Cryoturbated - organic mottled patches are common.  8+:  ash, organics and till mixed.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH=32.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate sample JB99-123.  19+ cm: basal till.  Black spruce bark samples:  JB99-103 - CBH=36 cm; JB99-123 - CBH=27 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
21+ cm:  Parent material with organic lenses.  Clasts mostly pebbles, with minor cobbles.  Possible lacustrine influence in formation of till.  Black spruce bark sample, CBH=34 cm.


Topo Position:
Till exposure at end of ridge north of Anvil Creek.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Pit on old exploration road at base of steep hillside - possibly an apron of retransported till was sampled.  Duplicate till sample JB99-124.  18-32 cm:  A horizon again.  32+ cm: till.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=36 cm (no duplicate).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
11-21 cm: mixed ash and organics.  21+ cm:  mixed till and organics.  Duplicate black spruce bark sample  (JB99-126) taken from same tree, CBH=28 cm, slightly higher than JB99-113 sample.

Bedrock:
1C - non-calcareous biotite muscovite schist.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road.  Upper 5-25 cm: silty sand (unit sampled).  Increasing sand with depth to coarse sand.  Duplicate of sample JB99-010.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Apparent ash at 57+ cm, suggesting heavily cryoturbated soil.  Suspect till sampled (mostly clay), mottled-looking.  Numerous polished clasts.  Duplicate of sample JB99-020.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Recent landslide scarp; depth = 1.1 m from the top of scarp; sampled till underlying buff coloured regional till; appears to be fewer granites in (?) glacial maximum till, and fewer boulders; colour reflects underlying geology; isolated oxidized clasts.  Duplicate of sample JB99-042.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock at 30+ cm, surface is weathered and fractured.  Numerous bedrock/local clasts in till.  Duplicate of sample JB99-053.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on road/game trail; Black spruce bark sample:  CBH = 44cm; Organic lenses at 40-53 cm and 61-64 cm likely due to cryoturbation, rest of profile is till; graphitic phyllite shards, isolated oxidized clasts, duplicate site.  Keno does handstand!!  Duplicate of sample JB99-062.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on drill pad.  Mottled till varying between olive-grey and olive from 25-43 cm.  Parent material till from 43+.  Black spruce bark sample duplicate site:  JB99-72, CBH=45 cm;  JB99-120, CBH=48 cm.  Duplicate of sample JB99-072.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate of sample JB99-084.  Two tills, buff-coloured overlying dark coloured, exposed in mudslide scarp.  Mixed ash, colluvium, organics and till from 16-33 cm.  Mixed organics and till from 39-45 cm.  Buff coloured colluviated till from 45-127 cm.  Mixed buff till and dark till from 127-150 cm.  Intact dark till from 150+ cm - sample medium for JB99-84.  Sample medium for JB99-84 (dup) was buff-coloured till:  Colour - 5Y5/3 (dry) olive; silty clayey sand texture; 55% matrix with more angular clasts than darker till.  Black spruce bark sample duplicate site:  CBH=63 cm.  Duplicate taken from same tree, immediately above first sample.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Isolated oxidized clasts.  Duplicate of sample JB99-093.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate sample JB99-103.  19+ cm: basal till.  Black spruce bark samples:  JB99-103 - CBH=36 cm; JB99-123 - CBH=27 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Pit on old exploration road at base of steep hillside - possibly an apron of retransported till was sampled.  Duplicate of till sample JB99-111.  18-32 cm:  A horizon again.  32+ cm: till.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=36 cm (no duplicate).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
DUPLICATE OF BARK SAMPLE JB99-68 ONLY - NOT TILL.  Sampled on road.  Mixed ash/A-horizon from 3-23 cm.  Numerous angular phyllite shards.  Duplicate black spruce sample taken:  JB99-68, CBH=36 cm, sampled 2.6 m from pit;  JB99-125, CBH=34 cm, sampled 4 m from pit.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
DUPLICATE OF JB99-113 BARK SAMPLE ONLY - NOT TILL.  11-21 cm: mixed ash and organics.  21+ cm:  mixed till and organics.  Duplicate black spruce bark sample  (JB99-126) taken from same tree, CBH=28 cm, slightly higher than JB99-113 sample.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
0-200 cm:  Colluvium.  200+ cm:  ?intact basal till.  Sorted lenses present in exposure suggesting late-stage glacial deposition.  (Formerly JB99-95, renumbered to insert control standard).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled on old road with some minor flow properties.  Polished clasts present.  Isolatd clasts of oxidation.  2+ cm is local remobilized till.  Black spruce bark sample CBH=41 cm.  (Formerly JB99-112, renumbered to insert control standard).

Bedrock:
1C/D - non-calcareous biotite muscovite schist


