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Grant Lowey Grant is an applied sedimentologist currently working on placer gold deposits in west-central Yukon. His main project, entitled 'The Placer Geology of the Stewart River (115 O/N) and part of the Dawson (116 B/C) map areas', describes and documents the geology of known placer deposits in the world famous Klondike goldfields, the historic Fortymile River and Sixty Mile River goldfields, and other well-know placers along Blackhills, Henderson, Scroggie, Thistle and Kirkman creeks. Other purposes of the project are to interpret the formation of the placer deposits, to relate the geology of the placer deposits to the regional surficial and bedrock geology, and to determine the potential of undiscovered placer deposits in this area. The objective of the project is to aid in the mining and exploration of placer deposits in this area by providing a comprehensive and up-to-date placer geoscience database. Grant's other research interests include documenting the diagenetic alteration of the White Channel Gravel, determining the process sedimentology of a torrent system in the Kusawa Lake area, characterizing the sedimentology of dinosaur trackways in the Ross River area, determining the amount of offset along the Denali fault system, a basin analysis of deep-marine siliciclastics in Kluane National Park, and popularizing Yukon geology. Grant has lived in the Yukon since 1967 and worked in mineral exploration, oil and gas exploration and academia before joining the Yukon Government in 1997. He obtained a B.Sc. from the University of Alaska (Fairbanks, Alaska), a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta), and certificates in groundwater hydrology and groundwater management from Write State University (Dayton, Ohio).
Lowey, G.W. 2002. Sedimentary processes of the Kuswawa Lake torrent system,
Yukon, Canada, as Lowey, G.W. 2002. White Channel Gravel Alteration Revisited. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2001, D.S. Emond and L.H. Weston (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 147-162. Lipovsky, P., Lowey, G.W. and Lebarge, B. 2001. Dawson area placer activity map, portions of NTS sheets 116 B & C and 115 N & O. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-32, 1:250000 scale map. Lowey, G.W. 2001. The Stewart River placer project, west-central Yukon.
In: Yukon Exploration and Long, D.G.F., Lowey, G.W. and Sweet, A.R. 2001. Age and setting of dinosaur
trackways, Ross River Lowey, G.W. 2000. Tatshenshini shear zone (new) in southwestern Yukon:
comparison with the Coast Lowey, G.W. 1998. White Channel Gravel. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada, Open File 1998-2 (1:100,000 scale map and marginal notes). Lowey, G.W. 1998. Yukon Dinosaurs. Geology Field Notes No. 2, Yukon Geology Program, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon. Lowey, G.W. 1998.Yukon Meteorites. Geology Field Notes No. 1, Yukon Geology Program, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon. Lowey, G.W. 1998. A new estimate of the amount of displacement on the Denali fault system based on the occurrence of carbonate megaboulders in the Dezadeash Formation (Jura-Cretaceous), Yukon, and the Nutzotin Mountains sequence (Jura-Cretaceous), Alaska. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 46, 379-386. Lowey, G.W. 1995. Terrane and terrain: the geology and geography of the Whitehorse area. In: Whitehorse and area hikes and bikes, Yukon Conservation Society, p. 110-113. Lowey, G.W. 1992. Variation in bed thickness in a turbidite succession, Dezadeash Formation (Jura- Cretaceous), Yukon, Canada: evidence of thinning-upward and thickening-upward cycles. Sedimentary Geology, 78, 217-232. |
