Petrography and U-Pb zircon geochronology of Caledonian age orthogneisses dredged from the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Brumley, Kelley, Miller, Elizabeth L, Mayer, Larry A., Wooden, J L, Dumitru, T A
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2011
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Borderland; geochronology; Petrography; Computer Sciences; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Arctic; Svalbard; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Greenland; barents region; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/650; http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2011/FM/T51K-07.html

The Caledonian orogenic belt developed in the Ordovician to Devonian affecting northern Europe, Greenland and Arctic Canada. Caledonian deformational trends continue into the Arctic region disappearing at the rifted margin of the Arctic Ocean. Syn-orogenic magmatism in the Barents region date deform...