Ar-Ar and U-Pb Geochronology of a Late Paleoproterozoic Rift Basin: Support for a Genetic Link with Hudsonian Orogenesis, Western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Authors: Rainbird, RH, Davis, WJ, Stern, RA, Peterson, TD, Smith, SR, Parrish, Randall R, Hadlari, T
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Chicago Journals 2006
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Nunavut; Canada; Hudson; The Baker; Baker Lake
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7820/; http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/498097

The Baker Lake Group (Baker Sequence) represents the record of the formative stage of Baker Lake Basin, a series of generally elongate, northeast-striking, half-graben, and fault-bounded troughs filled with continental redbeds and coeval voluminous ultrapotassic volcanic rocks. An estimate for the t...