Detrital zircon geochronology of the western Ellesmerian clastic wedge, northwestern Canada: Insights on Arctic tectonics and the evolution of the northern Cordilleran miogeocline

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1899-1911

  Beranek, Luke P ^a,e   Mortensen, James K ^a   Lane, Larry S ^b   Allen, Tammy L ^c   Fraser, Tiffani A ^c   Hadlari, Thomas ^b,d   Zantvoort, Willem G ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^d Northwest Territories Geoscience Office   (Canada)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f HUSKY ENERGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DEVONIANS; FORELAND BASIN; GREENLAND; LATE DEVONIAN; OROGENIC BELTS; PALEOZOIC; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SOURCE ROCKS; SUBTERRANE; TERRANE ACCRETION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

ZIRCON;

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIAN; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PROVENANCE; RIFTING; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; SOURCE ROCK; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 78049450390     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30120.1     Document Type: Article

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