STRUCTURE OF THE RED DOG DISTRICT

• Main Authors: Western Brooks Range, Jose De Vera, Royal Holloway
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Brooks Range; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.383.5536; http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/D/773627462.pdf

______________________________________________________________________ This thesis presents a structural and stratigraphic analysis of the Red Dog district, western Brooks Range, northwestern Alaska. The aims of the research were to define the structure and stratigraphic context of the Red Dog district and, in particular, of the giant Zn-Pb-Ag and barite deposits in the region, in order to develop new tectonostratigraphic models for the area and for the mineralization. The research programme involved extensive periods of regional fieldwork combined with detailed mapping of the Red Dog open pit together with structural analysis, reconstructions and tectonostratigraphic analyses. The research presented in this thesis has resulted in a new structural interpretation and a new tectonostratigraphy for the Red Dog district, western Brooks Range of Alaska. This has lead to a new model for the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Red Dog district, for the mineralization and also for the western Brooks Range. The Red Dog district of the western Brooks Range consists of two major allochthonous