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, C, Zagorevski, A, McClelland, W, Escayola, M, Ryan, J, Parsons, A, Proenza, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Canada; Clinton Creek; Huon; Midnight Dome; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.07.008; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1c3ebc6d-efe9-4ecf-b3fb-e8bb3ef14a9c

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...