Abstract: The Eocene Skukum volcanic complex, 60 km south-southwest of Whitehorse, is elliptical in plan, covers an area of about 140 km², and unconformably overlies Cretaceous granitic rocks and Precambrian metasedimentary rocks. The complex is fault-bounded and in places has been intruded by felsic dykes and stocks.

A major north-trending fault divides the area into two parts: a western part which includes a lower interlayered sedimentary-volcanic sequence and an upper unit, approximately 500 m thick, characterized by andesite lava flows, pyroclastic flows and sedimentary units; and an eastern part which comprises about 800 m of altered felsic pyroclastic flows and brecciated, flow layered and spherulitic felsic lava flows.

Study of the interlayered sedimentary-volcanic formation provides a control on the paleotopography of the Skukum area, and the depositional environment and provenance of the formation..

Authors: Pride, M.J.

Map Scale: 1 : 0

NTS Mapsheet(s): 105D

Citation: Pride, M.J., 1985. Interlayered sedimentary-volcanic sequence, Mt. Skukum volcanic complex. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1983, Yukon Geological Survey, Indian & Northern Affairs Canada/Department of Indian & Northern Development: Exploration & Geological Services Division.

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