Pond Inlet Courtyard

View of the pond and surrounding environment.

Pond Inlet Courtyard

Higher angle view of the pond and surrounding environment.

Pond Inlet Courtyard

View of the pond.

Pond Inlet Mirrors

Interesting view of the Pond Inlet Mezzanine.

Pond Inlet Courtyard

View of the courtyard from inside.

Pond Inlet Lounge

Section of the Pond Inlet lounge area.

Pond Inlet Lounge

Looking southwest in the Pond Inlet Lounge.

Pond Inlet Mezzanine

Looking east in the Pont Inlet Mezzanine.

Pond Inlet Dining Lounge

View of the dining lounge in 1974.

Pond Inlet Lounge Area

View from inside the lounge area in D Block

Geology of the Rankin Inlet area, Northwest Territories /

The Rankin Inlet area, on the west shore of Hudson Bay in the Northwest Territories, is in the Churchill Structural Province. Metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rocks, previously mapped as Archean and part of the Kaminak Group, underlie most of the area. The Rankin Inlet Group consists of greywacke, with minor conglomeratic greywacke, quartzite and dolomite, overlain by massive and pillowed basaltic flows. Gabbro sills intrude the sediments near the base of the volcanic sequence and three serpentinite sills outcrop at the base of the volcanic sequence. The sediments are in fault-contact with quartz monzonite to the south and were intruded by granitic rocks to the northwest. Two periods of folding were defined by the mapping. The first generation folds are recumbent isoclinal folds, with northwest-trending and northeast-dipping axial planes, formed through gravitational sliding. The second generation folds are symmetrically disposed about the axis of the granitic intrusion and have east-southeast trending and nearly vertical axial planes. Whole-rock analysis of 64 rock samples indicates that metasomatic alteration accompanied the intrusion of both the granitic rocks and the serpentinite. The volcanic rocks, gabbro and serpentinite were derived from a magma of oceanic tholeiitic affinities. The stratigraphic sequence and chemistry of the volcanic rocks of the Rankin Inlet Group indicate that this assemblage is correlative with the Hurwitz Group rather than the Kaminak Group and is therefore Aphebian in age.