Late Proterozoic-Paleozoic evolution of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka terrane based on U-Pb igneous and detrital zircon ages: Implications for Neoproterozoic paleogeographic reconstructions

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 1219-1235

  Amato, Jeffrey M ^a   Toro, Jaime ^b   Miller, Elizabeth L ^c   Gehrels, George E ^d   Farmer, G Lang ^e   Gottlieb, Eric S ^a   Till, Alison B ^f  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC BASIN; CAMBRIANS; CARBONATE ROCK; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DEVONIANS; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; EARLY CRETACEOUS; GRANITIC ROCKS; LAURENTIAN; LOWER PALEOZOIC; MAGMATIC ROCK; MAGMATISMS; MESOZOIC; MESOZOIC EVOLUTION; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SIBERIA; SILICICLASTIC ROCKS; U-PB AGES; U-PB DATING; U-PB ZIRCON; VOLCANIC EVENT; ZIRCON AGE;

BUILDINGS; CARBONATES; CAVITY RESONATORS; GALLIUM; LEAD; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCK; MAGMATISM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449408210     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26510.1     Document Type: Article

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