Cache Creek Terrane Explained

The Cache Creek Terrane (alternately known as Cache Creek Melange)^[1] is a geologic terrane in British Columbia and southern Yukon, Canada.

The Cache Creek Terrane consists of Carboniferous to Lower Jurassic volcanic rocks, carbonate rocks, coarse clastic rocks and small amounts of ultramafic rock, chert and argillite.^[2]

Three geological formations comprise the Cache Creek Terrane: the Sitlika Assemblage, the Tezzeron succession and the Cache Creek Complex.^[3]

This terrane is mentioned in the video Where terranes collide (done in conjunction with Canada's geologic survey).

External links

Research Papers

• The Odyssey of the Cache Creek Terrane
• Mineral Resources Map
• Significance of Jurassic Radiolarians from the Cache Creek Terrane
• Northern Cordilleran terranes and their interactions through time

Books, Periodicals

• Book: C. J. Yorath. Where terranes collide. 1990. Orca Book Publishers. 978-0-920501-53-5.
• Cache Creek Terrane (book chapter)

59°N -132°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Cache Creek Melange. exploregoldcountry.com. 23 May 2023.
2. Web site: Cache Creek Terrane . 2016-02-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220071512/http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/BulletinInformation/BulletinsAfter1940/Documents/Bull105_v25C05.pdf . 2016-12-20 . dead .
3. Web site: The Nechako NATMAP Project of the central Canadian Cordillera . 2014-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114845/http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/OpenFiles/2007/2007-10/GeoSummary/Pages/default.aspx . 2016-03-04 . dead .