Yellowknife Volcanic Belt
- Yellowknife Volcanic Belt
The Yellowknife Volcanic Belt (YVB) is an Archean volcanic belt in the southern Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is made mostly made of mafic volcanic rocks (basalt and andesite) and is bordered to the east by batholithic intrusions of the Western Granodiorite Complex and beyond to the north by the Duckfish Lake Granite. Intrusive equivalents (gabbro and diorite) are collectively known as the Kam Group. Most of the Yellowknife townsite and the Con and Giant gold mines are within the Kam Group. The Yellowknife Volcanic Belt stands out as a positive topographic feature.
ee also
*List of volcanoes in Canada
*Volcanism in Canada
*Geography of the Northwest Territories
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