Late Paleoproterozoic Terrane Accretion in Northwestern Canada and the Case for Circum-Columbian Orogenesis

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Furlanetto, Francesca, Thorkelson, Derek J., Gibson, H. Daniel, Marshall, Daniel D., Rainbird, Robert H., Davis, William J., Crowley, James L., Vervoort, Jeffrey D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks 2013
• Subjects: Wernecke Supergroup; Racklan; Paleoproterozoic; Bonnetia; Columbia; CGISS; Earth Sciences; Geophysics and Seismology; Bonnet Plume River; Canada; Fairchild Lake; Hart River; Wernecke; Wernecke Mountains; Yukon; Antarc*; Antarctica; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/geo_facpubs/143; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.10.010

The reconstruction of the paleocontinental configuration involving ancestral North America (Laurentia) at the Paleoproterozoic–Mesoproterozoic boundary has been developed in the last 30 years with different scenarios being proposed and different combinations of landmasses assembled together. However...