Using Detrital-Zircon Geochronology and (U-Th)/He Thermochronology to Re-evaluate the Triassic-Jurassic Tectonic Setting of Northern Laurentia, Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Midwinter, Derrick
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
• Subjects: Sverdrup Basin; Detrital-Zircon Geochronology; Thermochronology; Arctic Geology; Amerasia Basin; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Banks Island; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-284; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/35326

New geochronological and field data were examined from Triassic-Jurassic strata in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada. Detailed analysis of detrital-zircon data identified a pronounced near-syndepositional age-fraction in Triassic strata, which significantly is absent in Jurassic strata of the Sverdr...