DETRITAL RECORD OF PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC TECTONICS OF THE NORTHWESTERN CORDILLERAN MARGIN: A CENTRAL ALASKAN PERSPECTIVE

• Main Author: Lukas Geiger-Rigby McCreary
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Sedimentology; Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy; sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis); Structural geology and tectonics; Alaska; Geology; Stratigraphy; Tectonics; Clastic wedge; Paleogeography; Intermontane terranes; Yukon-Tanana terrane; Laurentia; Manley basin; Paleozoic; Devonian; Mississippian; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Accretion tectonics; Backarc extension; Detrital zircon; Slide Mountain Ocean; Kahiltna Basin; Kuskokwim Basin; Wellesley Basin; Crustal thickening; Fairbanks Schist; Wickersham unit; Chatanika unit; Cascaden Ridge unit; Wolverine Quartzite; Wilber Creek unit; Fairbanks; Yukon; Kuskokwim
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25394/pgs.26035117.v1

The Intermontane terranes represent one of the largest composite accreted terranes that built the northern Cordillera. To better understand the interactions between the continental margin of Laurentia and the Intermontane terranes, this study analyzes twelve detrital zircon samples (n=3232) from a N...