Radiolarian ages from chert pebbles of the Tantalus Formation, Carmacks area, Yukon Territory

• Main Author: Cordey, Fabrice
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1992
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Carmacks; Teslin; Teslin Plateau; Yukon; Whitehorse
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03274889; https://hal.science/hal-03274889/document; https://hal.science/hal-03274889/file/Cordey1992_Tantalus_GSC_CR.pdf

International audience Eighteen chert pebbles from three levels of the Late Jurassic-Cretaceous Tantalus Formation conglomerate near Carmacks contain radiolaria of Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian, Late Carnian-Middle Norian, Middle Norian, Late Norian) age. The known ages of chert pebbles from the Tantal...