Evidence for prolonged mid-Paleozoic plutonism and ages of crustal sources in east-central Alaska from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of syn-magmatic, inherited, and detrital zircon

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-39

  Dusel Bacon, Cynthia ^a   Williams, Ian S ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK ARCS; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CRUSTAL SOURCES; DETRITAL ZIRCONS; GRAIN POPULATIONS; LATE DEVONIANS; MAGMATISM; NORTH AMERICANS; ORTHOGNEISSES; PALEOZOIC; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC SETTINGS; U-PB AGES; U-PB DATING; ZIRCON U-PB AGES;

FORESTRY; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ZIRCON;

BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GRANITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ION MICROPROBE; MAGMATISM; ORTHOGNEISS; PALEOZOIC; PLUTONISM; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65149091878     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E09-005     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Beranek, L.P., and Mortensen, J.K. 2007. Investigating a Triassic overlap assemblage in Yukon: ongoing field studies and preliminary detrital-zircon age data. In Yukon exploration and geology, 2006. Edited by D.S. Emond, L.L. Lewis, and L.H. Weston. Yukon Geological Survey, pp. 83-92.
2. Berman, R.G., Ryan, J.J., Gordey, S.P., and Villeneuve, M. 2007. Permian to Cretaceous polymetamorphic evolution of the Stewart River region, Yukon-Tanana terrane, Yukon, Canada: P-T evolution linked with in situ SHRIMP monazite geochronology. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25: 803-827. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2007.00729.x.
3. Bradley, D.C., McClelland, W.C., Wooden, J.L., Till, A.B., Roeske, S.M., Miller, M.L., Karl, S.M., and Abbott, J.G. 2007. Detrital zircon geochronology of some Neoproterozoic to Triassic rocks in interior Alaska. In Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: crustal evolution of southern Alaska. Edited by K.D. Ridgway, J.M. Trop, J.M.G. Glen, and J.M. O'Neill. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 431, pp. 155-189.
4. Bradley, D., O'Sullivan, P., Friedman, R., Miller, M., Till, A., Dumoulin, J., and Blodgett, R. 2008. Detrital zircon geochronology of Proterozoic to Devonian rocks in interior Alaska. Newsletter of the Alaska Geological Society, 38(5): 1-5.
5. Cecile, M.P., Morrow, D.W., and Williams, G.K. 1997. Early Paleozoic (Cambrian to Early Devonian) tectonic framework, Canadian Cordillera. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 45: 54-74.
6. Churkin, M., Jr., and Brabb, E.E. 1965. Occurrence and stratigraphic significance of Oldhamia, a Cambrian trace fossil, in east-central Alaska. In Geological Survey Research 1965. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper, 525-D: D120-D124.
7. Coleman, D.S., Gray, W., and Glazner, A.F. 2004. Rethinking the emplacement and evolution of zoned plutons: geochronologic evidence for incremental assembly of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 32: 433-436.
8. Colpron, M., Nelson, J.L., and Murphy, D.C. 2006. A tectonostratigraphic framework for the pericratonic terranes of the northern Cordillera. In Paleozoic evolution and metallogeny of Pericratonic terranes at the ancient Pacific margin of North America, Canadian and Alaskan cordillera. Edited by M. Colpron and J.L. Nelson. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 45, pp. 1-23.
9. Coney, P.J., Jones, D.L., and Monger, J.W.H. 1980. Cordilleran suspect terranes. Nature, 288: 329-333. doi:10.1038/288329a0.
10. Csejtey, B., Jr., Mullen, M.W., Cox, D.P., and Stricker, G.D. 1992. Geology and geochronology of the Healy quadrangle, south-central Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Map 1-1961, scale 1 : 250 000, 63 p.
11. Dashevsky, S.S., Schaefer, C.F., and Hunter, E.N. 2003. Bedrock geologic map of the Delta mineral belt, Tok mining district, Alaska. Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Professional Report 122, 122 p., 2 plates, scale 1 : 63 360.
12. Day, W.C., Aleinikoff, J.N., Roberts, P., Smith, M., Gamble, B.M., Henning, M.W., Gough, L.P., and Morath, L.C. 2003. Geologic map of the Big Delta B-2 quadrangle, east-central Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Investigation Series 1-2788, scale 1 : 63 360.
13. Dodson, M.H., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., and Wilson, J.F. 1988. A search for ancient detrital zircons in Zimbabwean sediments. Journal of the Geological Society, 145: 977-983. doi: 10. 1144/gsjgs.145.6.0977.
14. Douglas, R.J.W., Gabrielse, H., Wheeler, J.O., Scott, D.F., and Belyea, H.R. 1970. Geology of western Canada VIII. In Geological Survey of Canada. Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada. Economic Geology Report 1, pp. 363-488.
15. Dover, J.H. 1994. Geology of part of east-central Alaska. In The geology of Alaska, v. G-1, The geology of North America. Edited by G. Plafker and H.C. Berg. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., pp. 53-204.
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. doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1985)96<411:PATSOA>2. 0.CO;2.
17. Dusel-Bacon, C., and Aleinikoff, J.N. 1996. U-Pb zircon and titanite ages for augen gneiss from the Divide Mountain area, eastern Yukon-Tanana upland, Alaska, and evidence for the composite nature of the Fiftymile Batholith. In Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey during 1994. Edited by T.E. Moore and J.A. Dumoulin. U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 2152, pp. 131-141.
18. Dusel-Bacon, C., and Cooper, K.M. 1999. 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, 36: 1671-1695. doi:10.1139/cjes-36-10-1671.
19. Dusel-Bacon, C., and Harris, A.G. 2003. New occurrences of late Paleozoic and Triassic fossils from the Seventymile and Yukon-Tanana terranes, east-central Alaska, with comments on previously published occurrences in the same area. In Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey during 2001. Edited by J.P. Galloway. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1678, pp. 5-30.
20. Dusel-Bacon, C., Csejtey, B., Jr., 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, 73 p., 2 map sheets, scale 1 : 1 000000.
21. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1995.tb00202.x.
22. 39Ar data from metamorphic and plutonic rocks. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39: 1013-1051. doi:10. 1139/e02-018.
23. Dusel-Bacon, C., Wooden, J.L., and Hopkins, M.J. 2004. U-Pb zircon and geochemical evidence for bimodal mid-Paleozoic magmatism and syngenetic base-metal mineralization in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116: 989-1015. doi:10.1130/B25342.1.
24. Dusel-Bacon, C., Hopkins, M.J., Mortensen, J.K., Dashevsky, S.S., Bressler, J.R., and Day, W.C. 2006a. Paleozoic tectonic and metallogenic evolution of the pericratonic rocks of east-central Alaska and adjacent Yukon Territory. In Paleozoic evolution and metallogeny of pericratonic terranes at the ancient Pacific margin of North America, Canadian and Alaskan cordillera. Edited by M. Colpron and J.L. Nelson. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 45, pp. 25-74.
25. Dusel-Bacon, C., Mortensen, J.K., and Nelson, J.N. 2006b. Two-fold division of Yukon-Tanana terrane in east-central Alaska into parautochthonous and allochthonous elements and the need for clarification of terminology. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 38(5): 6.
26. Enkin, R.J., Johnston, S.T., Baker, J., and Larson, K. 2006. Paleomagnetism of the 70 Ma Carmacks Group at Solitary Mountain, Yukon, confirms and extends controversial results: Further evidence for the Baja British Columbia model. In Paleogeography of the North American cordillera: evidence for and against large-scale displacements. Edited by J.W. Haggart, R.J. Enkin, and J.W.H. Monger. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 46, pp. 221-232.
27. Foster, H.L. 1970. Reconnaissance geologic map of the Tanacross quadrangle, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-593, 1 sheet, scale 1 : 250 000.
28. Foster, H.L., Cushing, G.W., Keith, T.E.C., and Laird, J. 1985. Early Mesozoic tectonic history of the Boundary area, east-central Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, 12: 553-556. doi:10.1029/GL012i009p00553.
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, v. G-1, The geology of North America. Edited by G. Plafker and H.C. Berg. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., pp. 205-240.
30. Fritz, W.H., Cecile, M.P., Norford, B.S., Morrow, D., and Geldsetzer, H.H.J. 1991. Cambrian to Middle Devonian assemblages. In Geology of the Cordilleran orogen in Canada. Edited by H. Gabrielse and C.J. Yorath. Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, no. 4, pp. 151-218.
31. Gabrielse, H., and Campbell, R.B. 1991. Upper Proterozoic assemblages. In Chapter 6, Geology of the Cordilleran orogen in Canada. Edited by H. Gabrielse and C.J. Yorath. Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, no. 4, pp. 125-150.
32. Gabrielse, H., Murphy, D.C., and Mortensen, J.K. 2007. Cretaceous and Cenozoic dextral orogen-parallel displacements, magmatism and paleogeography, north-central Canadian Cordillera. In Paleogeography of the North American cordillera: evidence for and against large-scale displacements. Edited by J.W. Haggart, R.J. Enkin, and J.W.H. Monger. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 46, pp. 255-276.
33. Gehrels, G.E., and Ross, G.M. 1998. Detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic to Permian miogeoclinal strata in British Columbia and Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35: 1380-1401. doi:10.1139/cjes-35- 12-1380.
34. Gehrels, G.E., Dickinson, W.R., Ross, G.M., Stewart, J.H., and Howell, D.G. 1995. Detrital zircon reference for Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal strata of western North America. Geology, 23: 831-834. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0831:DZRFCT>2.3. CO;2.
35. Gehrels, G.E., Johnsson, M.J., and Howell, D.G. 1999. Detrital zircon geochronology of the Adams Argillite and Nation River Formation, east-central Alaska, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 69: 135-144.
36. Gladwin, K., and Johnston, S.T. 2006. Mid-Cretaceous pinning of accreted terranes to miogeoclinal assemblages in the northern Cordillera: Irreconcilable with paleomagnetic data? In Paleogeography of the North American cordillera: evidence for and against large-scale displacements. Edited by J.W. Haggart, R.J. Enkin, and J.W.H. Monger. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 46, pp. 299-306.
37. Gordey, S.P. 2007. The Selwyn Basin, Yukon: not a panacea for reconciling enigmatic terrane displacements. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. Available from gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007CD/finalprogram/abstract-121076. htm [accessed 16 December 2008].
38. Gordey, S.P., and Anderson, R.G. 1993. Evolution of the northern Cordilleran miogeocline, Nahanni map area (1051), Yukon and Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 438, 214 p.
39. Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., and Smith, A.G. 2004. A Geologic Time Scale 2004. Cambridge University Press, 589 p.
40. Hansen, V.L. 1990. Yukon-Tanana terrane; a partial acquittal. Geology, 18: 365-369. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1990) 018<0365:YTTAPA>2.3.CO;2.
41. 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. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0211: SAKEOT>2.3.CO;2.
42. 39Ar data. Tectonics, 10: 51-76. doi:10.1029/90TC01930.
43. Heslop, K., Dusel-Bacon, C., and Williams, I.S. 1995. Survival of zircon U-Pb isotopic systems through partial melting and high P-T dynamothermal metamorphism, Yukon-Tanana terrane, Alaska. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 27(5): 26.
44. Hoffman, P.F. 1989, Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America. In The geology of North America - an overview. Edited by A.W. Bally and A.R. Palmer. Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Vol. A, pp. 447-512.
45. Hofmann, H.J., and Cecile, M.P. 1981. Occurrence of Oldhamia and other trace fossils in lower Cambrian(?) argillites, Middery Lake map area, Selwyn Mountains, Yukon Territory. In Current Research, Part A. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 81-1A, pp. 281-290.
46. Johnston, S.T. 2008. The Cordilleran ribbon continent of North America. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 36: 495-530. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124331.
47. Ludwig, K.R. 1999. Using Isoplot/Ex, Version 2, A geochronological toolkit for Microsoft Excel. Berkeley Geochronology Center, Special Publication la, 47 p.
48. McNicoll, V.J., Harrison, J.C., Trettin, H.P., and Thorsteinsson, R. 1995. Provenance of the Devonian clastic wedge of Arctic Canada: evidence provided by detrital zircon ages. In Stratigraphic evolution of foreland basins. Edited by S.L. Dorobek and G.M. Ross. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication 52, pp. 77-93.
49. Mortensen, J.K. 1986. U-Pb ages for granitic orthogneiss from western Yukon Territory: Selwyn Gneiss and Fiftymile Batholith revisited. In Current research, Part B. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 86-1B, pp. 141-146.
50. Mortensen, J.K., and Sullivan, R.W. 1991. U-Pb zircon ages, Nd isotopic compositions, and tectonic significance of middle and late Paleozoic magmatism in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, western Yukon Territory, Canada. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 23(5): A434.
51. Mortensen, J.K., Beranek, L., and Murphy, D.C. 2007. Permo-Triassic orogeny in the northern Cordillera: Sonoma north? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 39(4): 69.
52. 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.
53. Nelson, J.L., and Gehrels, G.E. 2007. Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the southeastern Yukon-Tanana terrane. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44: 297-316. doi:10.1139/E06-105.
54. Nelson, J.L., Paradis, S., Christiansen, J., and Gabites, J. 2002. Canadian Cordilleran Mississippi valley-type deposits: A case for Devonian-Mississippian back-arc hydrothermal origin. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 97: 1013-1036.
55. Nelson, J.L., Colpron, M., Piercey, S.J., Dusel-Bacon, C., Murphy, D.C., and Roots, C.F. 2006. Paleozoic tectonic and metallogenetic evolution of pericratonic terranes in Yukon, northern British Columbia and eastern Alaska. In Paleozoic evolution and metallogeny of Pericratonic terranes at the ancient Pacific margin of North America, Canadian and Alaskan cordillera. Edited by M. Colpron and J.L. Nelson. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 45, pp. 323-360.
56. Nokleberg, W.J., Aleinikoff, J.N., Dutro, J.T., Jr., Lanphere, M.A., Silberling, N.J., Silva, S.R., Smith, T.E., and Turner, D.L. 1992. Map, tables, and summary of fossil and isotopic age data, Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1996-D, 1 sheet, scale 1 : 250000, 43 p.
57. Okulitch, A.V. 2002. Geological time chart, 2002. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3040.
58. Pyle, L.J., and Barnes, C.R. 2000. Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian stratigraphic framework of platform-to-basin facies, north-eastern British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 48: 123-149. doi:10.2113/48.2.123.
59. Rainbird, R.C., Heaman, L.M., and Young, G. 1992. Sampling Laurentia: detrital zircon geochronology offers evidence for an extensive Neoproterozoic river system originating from the Grenville orogen. Geology, 20: 351-354. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<0351:SLDZGO>2.3.CO;2.
60. Rainbird, R.C., McNicoll, V.J., Thériault, R.J., Heaman, L.M., Abbott, J.G., Long, D.G.F., and Thorkelson, D.J. 1997. Pancontinental river system draining Grenville orogen recorded by U-Pb and Sm-Nd geochronology of Neoproterozoic quartz arenites and mudrocks, northwestern Canada. The Journal of Geology, 105: 1-17.
61. Ross, G.M. 1991. Precambrian basement in the Canadian Cordillera: an introduction. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28: 1133-1139.
62. Ross, G.M., Parrish, R.R., and Winston, D. 1992. Provenance and U-Pb geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup (northwestern United States): Implications for age of deposition and pre-Panthalassa plate reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 113: 57-76. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(92) 90211-D.
63. Ross, G.M., Friedman, R., and Mortensen, J.K. 2005. Detrital zircon and monazite from the Hyland Group (northern Canadian Cordillera and Alaska): Evidence for intracordilleran "Grenville" basement. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 37(4): 56.
64. Sambridge, M.S., and Compston, W. 1994. Mixture modelling of multi-component data sets with application to ion-probe zircon ages. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 128: 373-390. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(94)90157- 0.
65. 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, 19 p., scale 1 : 63 360.
66. Student (William Sealy Gosset). 1908. The probable error of a mean. Biometrika, 6: 1-25.
67. Tempelman-Kluit, D.J. 1979. Transported cataclasite, ophiolite and granodiorite in Yukon: Evidence of arc-continent collision. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 79-14.
68. Trettin, H.P. 1991. The Proterozoic to Late Silurian record of Pearya, Chapter 9. In Geology of the Innuitian orogen and Arctic platform of Canada and Greenland. Edited by H.P. Trettin. Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, 3: 239-261.
69. Van Schmus, W.R., Bickford, M.E., Anderson, J.L., Bender, E.E., Anderson, R.R., Bauer, P.W., et al. 1993. Transcontinental Proterozoic provinces. In Precambrian conterminous U.S. Edited by J.C. Reed, Jr., M.E. Bickford, R.S. Houston, P.K. Link, D.W. Rankin, P.K. Sims, and W.R. Van Schmus. Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, C-2, pp. 171-334.
70. Van Wyck, N. 2007. Detrital zircon ages from the metasediments in the Fortymile district, east central Alaska. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 39(6): 490.
71. Vermeesch, P. 2004. How many grains are needed for a provenance study? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 224: 441-451. doi:10.1016/j.epsl. 2004.05.037.
72. Villeneuve, M.E., Ross, G.M., Theriault, R.J., Miles, W., Parrish, R.R., and Broome, J. 1993. Tectonic subdivision and U-Pb geochronology of the crystalline basement of the Alberta basin, western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 447, 86 p.
73. Weber, F.R., Smith, T.E., Hall, M.H., and Forbes, R.B. 1985. Geologic guide to the Fairbanks-Livengood area, east-central Alaska. Alaska Geological Society, Anchorage, 44 p.
74. Weber, F.R., Wheeler, K.L., Rinehart, C.D., Chapman, R.M., and Blodgett, R.B. 1992. Geologic map of the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 92-562, 20 p., 1 sheet, scale 1 : 250000.
75. Williams, I.S. 2001. Response of detrital zircon and monazite, and their U-Pb isotopic systems, to regional metamorphism and host-rock partial melting, Cooma Complex, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48: 557-580. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2001.00883.x.
76. Young, G.M., Jefferson, C.W., Delaney, G.D., and Yeo, G.M. 1979. Middle and late Proterozoic evolution of the northern Canadian Cordillera and Shield. Geology, 7: 125-128. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1979)7<125:MALPEO>2.0. CO;2.