Trace-element geochemistry of metabasaltic rocks from the Yukon-Tanana Upland and implications for the origin of tectonic assemblages in east-central Alaska

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1671-1695

  Dusel Bacon, Cynthia ^a   Cooper, Kari M ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; METABASALT;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033497884     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-077     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Aleinikoff, J.N., and Nokleberg, W.J. 1985. Age of Devonian igneous-arc terranes in the northern Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range. In The United States Geological Survey in Alaska - accomplishments during 1984. Edited by S. Bartsch-Winkler. U.S. Geological Survey, Circular 967, pp. 66-70.
2. Aleinikoff, J.N., and Nokleberg, W.J. 1989. Age of deposition and provenance of the Cleary sequence of the Fairbanks schist unit, Yukon-Tanana terrane, east-central Alaska. In Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1988. Edited by J.H. Dover and J.P. Galloway. U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 1903, pp. 75-78.
3. Aleinikoff, J.N., Dusel-Bacon, C., and Foster, H.L. 1986. Geochronology of augen gneiss and related rocks, Yukon-Tanana terrane, east-central Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97: 626-637.
4. Aleinikoff, J.N., Dusel-Bacon, C., Foster, H.L., and Nokleberg, W.J. 1987. Lead isotopic fingerprinting of tectono-stratigraphic terranes, east-central Alaska. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 24: 2089-2098.
5. Bacon, C.R., and Druitt, T.H. 1988. Compositional evolution of the zoned calcalkaline magma chamber of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 98: 224-256.
6. Brown, E.H., and Forbes, R.B. 1986. Phase petrology of eclogitic rocks in the Fairbanks district, Alaska. In Blueschists and eclogites. Edited by B.W. Evans and E.H. Brown. Geological Society of America, Memoir 164, pp. 155-167.
7. Cabanis, B., and Lecolle, M. 1989. Le diagramme La/10Y/15Nb/8: un outil pour la discrimination des series volcaniques et la mise en evidence des processus de melange et/ou de contamination crustale. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 309(ser. II): 2023-2029.
8. Cecile, M.P. 1982. The lower Paleozoic Misty Creek Embayment, Selwyn Basin, Yukon and Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 335.
9. Colpron, M., and Price, R.A. 1995. Tectonic significance of the Kootenay terrane, southeastern Canadian Cordillera: an alternative model. Geology, 23: 25-28.
10. Creaser, R.A., Erdmer, P., Stevens, R.A., and Grant, S.L. 1997. Tectonic affinity of Nisutlin and Anvil assemblage strata from the Teslin tectonic zone, northern Canadian Cordillera: constraints from neodymium isotope and geochemical evidence. Tectonics, 16: 107-121.
11. Cushing, G.W. 1984. The tectonic evolution of the eastern Yukon-Tanana upland. M.S. thesis, State University of New York, Albany.
12. Day, W.C., Wanty, R.B., Gamble, B.M., Henning, M.W., Crock, J., Gough, L., and Wang, B. 1998. Geology and regional surface-water quality of the Fortymile Mining District, Yukon-Tanana Uplands, Alaska. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 30(7): A183.
13. Dover, J.H. 1994. Geology of part of east-central Alaska. In The geology of Alaska. Edited by G. Plafker and H.C. Berg. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., The Geology of North America, Vol. G-1, pp. 153-204.
14. Duke, N.A., Nauman, C.R., and Newkirk, S.R. 1984. The Delta District, a mineralized lower Paleozoic marginal rift terrane in the east central Alaska Range. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 16(5): A279.
15. Dusel-Bacon, C. 1983. Trace element evidence for the tectonic affinities of some amphibolites from the Yukon-Tanana Upland. In The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: accomplishments during 1981. Edited by W.L. Coonrad and R.L. Elliott. U.S. Geological Survey, Circular 868, pp. 50-54.
16. Dusel-Bacon, C., and Aleinikoff, J.N. 1985. Petrology and tectonic significance of augen gneiss from a belt of Mississippian granitoids in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, east-central Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 96: 411-425.
17. Dusel-Bacon, C., and Hansen, V.L. 1992. High-pressure amphibolite-facies metamorphism and deformation within the Yukon-Tanana and Taylor Mountain terranes, eastern Alaska. In Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1991. Edited by D.C. Bradley and C. Dusel-Bacon. U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 2041, pp. 140-159.
18. Dusel-Bacon, C., Csejtey, B., Foster, H.L., Doyle, E.O., Nokleberg, W.J., and Plafker, G. 1993. Distribution, facies, ages, and proposed tectonic associations of regionally metamorphosed rocks in east-and south-central Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1497-C, scale 1 : 1 000 000.
19. Dusel-Bacon, C., Hansen, V.L., and Scala, J.A. 1995. High-pressure amphibolite facies dynamic metamorphism and the Mesozoic tectonic evolution of an ancient continental margin, east-central Alaska. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13: 9-24.
20. Dusel-Bacon, C., Bressler, J.R., Takaoka, H., Mortensen, J.K., Oliver, D.H., Leventhal, J.S., Newberry, R.J., and Bundtzen, T.K. 1998. Stratiform zinc-lead mineralization in Nasina assemblage rocks of the Yukon-Tanana Upland in east-central Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 98-340 (World Wide Web URL, http://caldera.wr.usgs.gov/syngenms/OF98-340.html).
21. Eisbacher, G.H. 1983. Devonian-Mississippian sinistral transcurrent faulting along the cratonic margin of western North America: a hypothesis. Geology, 11: 7-10.
22. Erdmer, P. 1987. Blueschist and eclogite in mylonitic allochthons, Ross River and Watson Lake areas, southeastern Yukon. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 24: 1439-1449.
23. Erdmer, P., and Helmstaedt, H. 1983. Eclogite from central Yukon: a record of subduction at the western margin of ancient North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 20: 1389-1408.
24. Erlank, A.J., and Kable, E.J.D. 1976. The significance of incompatible elements in Mid-Atlantic Ridge basalts from 45°N with particular reference to Zr/Nb. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 54: 281-291.
25. Ferri, F. 1997. Nina Creek Group and Lay Range Assemblage, north-central British Columbia: remnants of late Paleozoic oceanic and arc terranes. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34: 854-874.
26. Finlow-Bates, T., and Stumpfl, E.F. 1981. The behaviour of so-called immobile elements in hydrothermally altered rocks associated with volcanogenic submarine-exhalative ore deposits. Mineralium Deposita, 16: 319-328.
27. Foster, H.L. 1976. Geologic map of the Eagle quadrangle, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Series Map I-922, scale 1 : 250 000.
28. Foster, H.L. 1992. Geologic map of the eastern Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 92-313, scale 1 : 500 000.
29. Foster, H.L., Keith, T.E.C., and Menzie, W.D. 1994. Geology of the Yukon-Tanana area of east-central Alaska. In The geology of Alaska. Edited by G. Plafker and H.C. Berg. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., The Geology of North America, Vol. G-1, pp. 197-217.
30. Goodfellow, W.D., and Jonasson, I.R. 1986. Environment of formation of Howards Pass (XY) Zn-Pb deposit, Selwyn Basin, Yukon. In Mineral deposits of the northern Cordillera. Edited by J.A. Morin. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Special Volume 37, pp. 19-50.
31. Goodfellow, W.D., Cecile, M.P., and Leybourne, M.I. 1995. Geochemistry, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of lower Paleozoic alkalic and potassic volcanic rocks, Northern Canadian Cordilleran Miogeocline. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32: 1236-1254.
32. Gordey, S.P., Abbott, J.G., Tempelman-Kluit, D., and Gabrielse, H. 1987. "Antler" elastics in the Canadian Cordillera. Tectonics, 11: 1266-1287.
33. Greenland, L.P., and Campbell, E.Y. 1974. Spectrophotometric determination of Niobium in the rocks. Journal of Research of the United States Geological Survey, 2(3): 353-355.
34. Hansen, V.L., and Dusel-Bacon, C. 1998. Structural and kinematic evolution of the Yukon-Tanana upland tectonites, east-central Alaska: a record of late Paleozoic to Mesozoic crustal assembly. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110: 211-230.
35. 39Ar data. Tectonics, 10: 51-76.
36. Harms, T.A., Coney, P.J., and Jones, D.L. 1984. The Sylvester allochthon, Slide Mountain terrane, British Columbia: a correlative of oceanic terranes of northern Alaska. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 16: 288.
37. Höy, T. 1987. Alteration, chemistry, and tectonic setting of volcanogenic massive sulphide - barite deposits at Rea Gold and Homestake, southeastern British Columbia (82 M/4W). In Exploration in British Columbia 1986. B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, pp. B7-B19.
38. Hudson, T.L. 1994. Crustal melting events in Alaska. In The geology of Alaska. Edited by G. Plafker and H.C. Berg. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., The Geology of North America, Vol. G-1, pp. 657-670.
39. Jenner, G.A. 1996. Trace element geochemistry of igneous rocks: geochemical nomenclature and analytical geochemistry. In Trace element geochemistry of volcanic rocks: applications for massive-sulphide exploration. Edited by D.A. Wyman. Geological Association of Canada, Short Course Notes 12, pp. 51-77.
40. Jones, D.L., Silberling, N.J., Coney, P.J., and Plafker, G. 1987. Lithotectonic terrane map of Alaska (west of the 141st Meridian). U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1874-A, scale 1 : 2 500 000.
41. Laird, J., Foster, H.L., and Weber, F.R. 1984. Amphibole eclogite in the Circle quadrangle, Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska. In The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: accomplishments during 1981. Edited by W.L. Coonrad and R.L. Elliott. U.S. Geological Survey, Circular 868, pp. 57-60.
42. Meschede, M. 1986. A method of discriminating between different types of mid-ocean ridge basalts and continental tholeiites with the Nb-Zr-Y diagram. Chemical Geology, 56: 207-218.
43. Monger, J.W.H., and Berg, H.C. 1987. Lithotectonic terrane map of western Canada and southeastern Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1874-B, scale 1 : 2 500 000.
44. Mortensen, J.K. 1992. Pre-mid-Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, Yukon and Alaska. Tectonics, 11: 836-853.
45. Mortensen, J.K., and Godwin, C.I. 1982. Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits associated with highly alkaline rift volcanics in the southeastern Yukon Territory. Economic Geology, 77: 1225-1230.
46. Mortensen, J.K., and Jilson, G.A. 1985. Evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane: evidence from southeastern Yukon Territory. Geology, 13: 806-810.
47. Murphy, D.C., and Abbott, G. 1995. Northern Yukon-Tanana terrane: the equivalent of Yukon's western Selwyn Basin offset along the Tintina fault? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 27(5): 26.
48. Murphy, J.B., and Hynes, A.J. 1986. Contrasting secondary mobility of Ti, P, Zr, Nb, and Y in two metabasaltic suites in the Appalachians. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 23: 1138-1144.
49. Nelson, J.L. 1993. The Sylvester Allochthon: upper Paleozoic marginal-basin and island-arc terranes in northern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30: 631-643.
50. Newberry, R.J., Layer, P.W., Solie, D.N., and Burleigh, R.E. 1995. Mesozoic-Tertiary igneous rocks of eastern interior Alaska: ages, compositions, and tectonic setting. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 27: 68.
51. Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.H., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Sole, D.N. 1996. Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks Mining District, Alaska. Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data File 96-16, 2 sheets, scale 1 : 63 360.
52. Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Mortensen, J.K., and Weber, F.R. 1998a. Petrology, geochemistry, age, and significance of two foliated intrusions in the Fairbanks District, Alaska. In Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1996. Edited by J.R. Riehle and J.E. Gray. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1595, pp. 117-129.
53. 39Ar dates for intrusions and mineral prospects in the eastern Yukon-Tanana terrane, Alaska. In Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1996. Edited by J.R. Riehle and J.E. Gray. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1595, pp. 131-160.
54. Nokleberg, W.J., and Aleinikoff, J.N. 1985. Summary of stratigraphy, structure, and metamorphism of Devonian igneous-arc terranes, northeastern Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska. In The United States Geological Survey in Alaska - accomplishments during 1984. Edited by S. Bartsch-Winkler. U.S. Geological Survey, Circular 967, pp. 66-70.
55. Nokleberg, W.J., Foster, H.L., and Aleinikoff, J.N. 1989. Geology of the northern Copper River Basin, eastern Alaska Range, and southern Yukon-Tanana Basin, southern and east-central Alaska. In Alaskan Geological and Geophysical Transect, Field trip guidebook T104. Edited by W.J. Nokleberg and M.A. Fisher. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., pp. 34-63.
56. Orville, P.M. 1969. A model for metamorphic differentiation origin of thin-layered amphibolites. American Journal of Science, 267: 64-86.
57. Pavlis, T.L. 1989. Middle Cretaceous orogenesis in the northern Cordillera: a Mediterranean analog of collision-related extensional tectonics. Geology, 17: 947-950.
58. Pavlis, T.L., Sisson, V.B., Foster, H.L., Nokleberg, W.J., and Plafker, G. 1993. Mid-Cretaceous extensional tectonics of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, Trans-Alaskan Crustal Transect (TACT), east-central Alaska. Tectonics, 12: 103-122.
59. Pearce, J.A. 1982. Trace element characteristics of lavas from destructive plate boundaries. In Andesites, orogenic andesites and related rocks. Edited by R.S. Thorpe. John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 525-548.
60. Pearce, J.A. 1983. The role of sub-continental lithosphere in magma genesis at destructive plate margins. In Continental basalts and mantle xenoliths. Edited by C.J. Hawkesworth and N.J. Norry. Shiva Publishing Limited, Nantwich, U.K., pp. 230-249.
61. Pearce, J.A., and Cann, J.R. 1973. Tectonic setting of basic volcanic rocks determined using trace element analyses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 19: 290-300.
62. Plint, H.E., and Gordon, T.M. 1997. The Slide Mountain Terrane and the structural evolution of the Finlayson Lake Fault Zone, southeastern Yukon. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34: 105-126.
63. Poole, F.G., Stewart, J.H., Palmer, A.R., Sandberg, C.A., Madrid, R.J., Ross, R.J. Jr., Hintze, L.F., Miller, M.M., and Wruke, C.T. 1992. Latest Precambrian to latest Devonian time; development of a continental margin. In The Cordilleran orogen: conterminous U.S. Edited by B.C. Burchfiel, P.W. Lipman, and M.L. Zoback. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., The Geology of North America, Vol. G-3, pp. 9-56.
64. Roback, R.C., Sevigny, J.H., and Walker, N.W. 1994. Tectonic setting of the Slide Mountain terrane, southern British Columbia. Tectonics, 13: 1242-1258.
65. Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Metz, P.A. 1990. Bedrock geology of the Fairbanks Mining District. Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Professional Report 106, 2 sheets, scale 1 : 63 360.
66. Roddick, J.A. 1967. Tintina trench. Journal of Geology, 75: 23-33.
67. Rubin, C.M., Miller, M.M., and Smith, G.M. 1990. Tectonic development of Cordilleran mid-Paleozoic volcano-plutonic complexes; evidence for convergent margin tectonism. In Paleozoic and early Mesozoic paleogeographic relations: Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains, and related terranes. Edited by D.S. Harwood and M.M. Miller. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 255, pp. 1-16.
68. Schussler, U., Richter, P., and Okrusch, M. 1989. Metabasites from the KTB Oberpfalz target area, Bavaria - geochemical characteristics and examples of mobile behaviour of "immobile" elements. Tectonophysics, 157: 135-148.
69. Selverstone, J., Spear, F.S., Franz, G., and Morteani, G. 1984. High-pressure metamorphism in the Tauern window, Austria: P-T paths from hornblende-kyanite-staurolite schists. Journal of Petrology, 25(2): 501-531.
70. Shervais, J.W. 1982. Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 59: 101-118.
71. Smith, M.T., and Gehrels, G.E. 1992. Stratigraphy and tectonic significance of lower Paleozoic continental margin strata in northeastern Washington. Tectonics, 11: 607-620.
72. Smith, M.T., Dickinson, W.R., and Gehrels, G.E. 1993. Contractional nature of Devonian-Mississippian antler tectonism along the North American continental margin. Geology, 21: 21-24.
73. Smith, T.E., Robinson, M.S., Weber, F.R., Waythomas, C.W., and Reifenstuhl, R.R. 1994. Geologic map of the upper Chena River area, eastern Interior Alaska. Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Professional Report 115, scale 1 : 63 360.
74. Sun, S.-s., and McDonough, W.F. 1989. Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In magmatism in the ocean basins. Edited by A.D. Saunders and M.J. Norry. Geological Society Special Publication (London), No. 42, pp. 313-345.
75. Tempelman-Kluit, D.J. 1979. Transported cataclasite, ophiolite and granodiorite in Yukon: evidence of arc-continent collision. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 79-14.
76. Turner, R.J.W., Madrid, R.J., and Miller, E.L. 1989. Roberts Mountains allochthon: stratigraphic comparison with lower Paleozoic outer continental margin strata of the northern Canadian Cordillera. Geology, 17: 341-344.
77. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1995. Final report of the mineral resource evaluation of the Bureau of Land Management Black River and Fortymile River Subunits. U.S. Bureau of Mines, Open File Report OFR79-95.
78. Weber, F.R., Smith, T.E., Hall, M.H., and Forbes, R.B. 1985. Geoloic guide to Fairbanks-Livengood area, east-central Alaska. Alaska Geological Survey.
79. Wheeler, J.O., and McFeely, P. 1991. Tectonic assemblage map of the Canadian Cordillera and adjacent parts of the United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada, Map 1712A, scale 1 : 2 000 000.
80. Wilson, F.H., Smith, J.G., and Shew, N. 1985. Review of radiometric data from the Yukon crystalline terrane, Alaska and Yukon Territory. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 22: 525-537.
81. Wilson, M. 1989. Igneous petrogenesis. Unwin Hyman Ltd., London.
82. Winchester, J.A., and Floyd, P.A. 1977. Geochemical discrimination of different magma series and their differentiation products using immobile elements. Chemical Geology, 20: 325-343.
83. Wood, D.A. 1980. The application of a Th-Hf-Ta diagram to problems of tectonomagmatic classification and to establishing the nature of crustal contamination of basaltic lavas of the British Tertiary volcanic province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 50: 11-30.
84. Wood, D.A., Joron, J.L., and Trevil, M. 1979. A re-appraisal of the use of trace elements to classify and discriminate between magma series erupted in different tectonic settings. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 45: 326-336.