Provenance of the Chugach-Prince William terrane through U/Pb dating of detrital zircons, Baranof Island, SE Alaska

• Main Author: Rick, Brianna Joy
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Carleton Digital Commons 2014
• Subjects: detrital zircon; Chugach-Prince William terrane; Sitka Graywacke; U/Pb geochronology; maximum depositional age; provenance; Whale Bay; Kodiak; Orca; Yakutat; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/comps/794

The southern Alaska continental margin contains the Chugach-Prince William Terrane (CPW), a ~2200 km Mesozoic-Tertiary accretionary complex composed mainly of deep-water turbidites and is intruded by 62-47 Ma near trench plutons of the Sanak- Baranof Belt (SBB). Location of the CPW during intrusion...