Pliocene and pleistocene volcanic interaction with cordilleran ice sheets, damming of the Yukon River and vertebrate palaeontology, Fort Selkirk volcanic group, west-central Yukon, Canada

• Main Authors: Jackson, L.E., Nelson, F.E., Huscroft, C.A., Villeneuve, M., Barendregt, René W., Storer, J.E., Ward, B.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Volcanism; Fort Selkirk; Yukon River; Pliocene; Pleistocene; Cordilleran ice sheets; Lava flows; Yukon; Canada; Volcano Mountain; Ice Sheet; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10133/3699

Accepted author manuscript Neogene volcanism in the Fort Selkirk area began with eruptions in the Wolverine Creek basin ca. 4.3 Ma and persisted to ca. 3.0 Ma filling the ancestral Yukon River valley with at least 40 m of lava flows. Activity at the Ne Ch’e Ddhäwa eruptive center overlapped with the...