Age and setting of Permian Slide Mountain terrane ophiolitic ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Yukon: Implications for late Paleozoic-early Mesozoic tectonic models in the northern Canadian Cordillera

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: van Staal, Cees R., Zagorevski, Alexandre, McClelland, William C., Escayola, Monica Patricia, Ryan, James J., Parsons, Andrew J., Proenza, Joaquin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science
• Subjects: CORDILLERA; KLONDIKE OROGENY; SLIDE MOUNTAIN TERRANE; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE OPHIOLITES; YUKON TANANA TERRANE; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Yukon; Canada; Huon; Clinton Creek; Midnight Dome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/94621

The Yukon Tanana (YTT) and Slide Mountain terranes (SMT) of the Cordillera in Canada and Alaska were interpreted in terms of opening and closing of a Late Devonian-Permian Japan Sea-style backarc basin behind a continental arc built upon YTT, which rifted from Laurentia during the Famennian-early Mi...