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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Northwest Territories"”.
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Geology of an Archean Greenstone Belt at Point Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
… belts are exposed in the Slave Province of Northwest Territories, Canada. At Point Lake, a "supracrustal sequence" comprised mainly of mafic volcanic and metasedimentary rocks lies over and east of a granitoid gneissic terrane. Field and laboratory studies have helped to clarify the …
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Early proterozoic (1.9 Ga) thrombolites of the Rocknest formation, Northwest Territories, Canada
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1990.
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A Systems Analysis Approach to Colorectal Cancer Screening Access In the Northwest Territories
Introduction The Northwest Territories as a rural and remote region of Canada has higher colorectal cancer rates and lower uptake of colorectal cancer screening compared to the rest of the country. Understanding the complex health system processes involved in screening is necessary to develop …
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Characterization of Arsenic Hosting Phases in Subaqueous Tailings at Terra Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada
… Mine, an abandoned silver-copper mine in the Northwest Territories, an estimated 500,000 tons of tailings containing 540,000kg of arsenic (As) were deposited into Ho-Hum Lake. Arsenic is being released from the tailings to the overlying surface water, resulting in dissolved As concentrations …
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Paleo-Ecotoxicology of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada) Lakes Impacted by Historic Gold Mining Activities
… from historic gold mining in Yellowknife lakes (Northwest Territories, Canada) using a paleo-ecotoxicological approach. I examined Cladocera subfossils preserved in the modern and pre-1850 lake sediments of 23 lakes in the region, and the Daphnia resting egg bank of Pocket Lake, a highly …
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Chironomid-based paleotemperature reconstruction of the North Slave Region, Northwest Territories during the Late Holocene
… two shallow lakes within the North Slave Region, Northwest Territories. No significant shifts were identified in the chironomid species assemblages, which indicated that these lakes experienced very little environmental change over the last approximately 500 years. Discrepancies were identified …
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Queer Futures, Queering Care: Diamond Mining and (Theorizing) Queer Social Reproduction in the Northwest Territories, Canada
… with 2SLGBTQ+ individuals living in the Northwest Territories, Canada, at the intersection of queer, feminist, and Indigenous critical theory. My inquiry was rooted in an analysis of how commitments to and practices of care affect queer folks’ material, social, and relational experiences …
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Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous and Paleogene Strata from Northern Yukon Territory and District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories
The biostratigraphic utility of the angiosperm pollen genus Pulcheripollenites is improved through the development of new biozones. Species of Pulcheripollenites, including one new species, P. sweetii, aid interpretations and correlations within three northern Canadian basins, in combination with …
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Spatial variation of the food price index in Canada's Northwest Territories: a ridge regression analysis
… Food Price Index (FPI) at destinations in the Northwest Territories (NWT). It follows a conceptual model that assumes the FPI varies directly with the accessibility of a given northern destination to the metropolitan South. Accessibility has been defined in many ways in the geographical …
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Safeguarding Indigenous Heritage in the Anthropocene: A Transnational Comparative Study of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and Northern Chile
… each from the Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and the Aymara and Quechua peoples in northern Chile. I use a multi-method approach consisting of semi-structured interviews, oral histories and participant observation. The data is complemented by environmental and …
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A Paleolimnological Investigation into the Ecological Impacts of Permafrost Thaw Slumping on Cladocerans (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) in the Mackenzie Delta Region (Northwest Territories, Canada)
… Crustacea) in Mackenzie Delta Region (Northwest Territories, Canada) lakes using paleolimnological techniques to answer the following questions: 1) Does thaw slumping increase UV exposure of Chydorus? 2) Are Daphnia absent in slump-affected lakes? I reconstructed UV exposure of Chydorus …
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CHARACTERIZING INTRA-ANNUAL XYLEM CELL FORMATION AND CIRCADIAN CYCLE DYNAMICS OF JACK PINE (PINUS BANKSIANA) IN THE NORTHERN BOREAL FOREST, YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Xylem cell formation and stem radial fluctuations for jack pine in Yellowknife, NT were assessed during the 2017 season. The characterization of the timing of the onset of xylogenesis reactivation, period(s) of rapid cell development, and termination of seasonal stem growth were recorded over the …
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A pertographic and geochemical study of selected peridotitic and pyroxenitic xenoliths from the three kimberlite localities in the Lac de Gras region, Northwest Territories, Canada
… Misery kimberlites in the Lac de Gras region, Northwest Territories, Canada were selected for inclusion in this study. The three kimberlites are situated within a 40 km radius of one another on the BHP property, and all are diamond-bearing. The Misery kimberlite is presently being mined, and …
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The Rankin Inlet Ceramics Project : a study in development and influence
… community on the west coast of Hudson Bay in the Northwest Territories. This community was established by the mining company and attracted a large Inuit population with its promise of wage employment. When this employment ceased, the Canadian government initiated an arts and crafts program to …
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The Aptian-Albian ironstone of the Rapid Creek formation, Little Fish Creek, NWT: implications for Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Events and critical mineral deposits
… ironstone located in the northern Yukon and Northwest Territories in the Richardson Mountains. Ironstones are Phanerozoic, Fe-rich, marine chemical sedimentary rocks. Metalliferous sediment accumulation occurred in a region of the Sevier foreland basin called the Blow Trough, a north-south …
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Reflections of Reflections of Reflections: A Multi-Case Study of Women Educators' Callings to the High Arctic
… to teach in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northwest Territories, Canada, from 1970 to 1985. Placed within a historical context, I set out to understand what called each educator to teach in a cultural context so different from her own in Canada's Arctic. In order to arrive at a deeper, more …
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