The Road River Group of northern Yukon, Canada: early Paleozoic deep-water sedimentation within the Great American Carbonate Bank

• Main Authors: Strauss, Justin V., Fraser, Tiffani, Melchin, Michael J., Allen, Tyler J., Malinowski, Joseph, Feng, Xiahong, Taylor, John F., Day, James, Gill, Benjamin C., Sperling, Erik A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2020
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; Richardson Mountains; Peel River; Road River; Mount Hare
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/101437; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2020-0017

Cambrian–Devonian sedimentary rocks of the northern Canadian Cordillera record both the establishment and demise of the Great American Carbonate Bank, a widespread carbonate platform system that fringed the ancestral continental margins of North America (Laurentia). Here, we present a new examinatio...