Cache Creek terrane

{{Short description|Geologic terrane in British Columbia and southern Yukon, Canada}}

The Cache Creek terrane (alternately known as Cache Creek Melange){{cite web|url=http://www.exploregoldcountry.com/pdf/caches/The%20Cache%20Creek%20Melange.pdf |title=The Cache Creek Melange|website=exploregoldcountry.com|access-date=23 May 2023}} is a geologic terrane in British Columbia and southern Yukon, Canada.

The Cache Creek terrane consists of Carboniferous to Lower Jurassic volcanic rocks, carbonate rocks, coarse clastic rocks and small amounts of ultramafic rock, chert and argillite.{{Cite web |url=http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/BulletinInformation/BulletinsAfter1940/Documents/Bull105_v25C05.pdf |title=Cache Creek Terrane |access-date=2016-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220071512/http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/BulletinInformation/BulletinsAfter1940/Documents/Bull105_v25C05.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead }}

Three geological formations comprise the Cache Creek Terrane: the Sitlika Assemblage, the Tezzeron succession and the Cache Creek Complex.{{Cite web |url=http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/OpenFiles/2007/2007-10/GeoSummary/Pages/default.aspx |title=The Nechako NATMAP Project of the central Canadian Cordillera |access-date=2014-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114845/http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/OpenFiles/2007/2007-10/GeoSummary/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}

This terrane is mentioned in the video Where terranes collide (done in conjunction with Canada's geologic survey).