Investigating the Paleozoic-Mesozoic low-temperature thermal history of the southwestern Canadian Arctic: insights from (U-Th)/He thermochronology

• Main Authors: Midwinter, Derrick, Powell, Jeremy, Schneider, David, Dewing, Keith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2016
• Subjects: Amerasia Basin; Amundsen Basin; Arctic; amundsen basin; Chukotka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/75886; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2016-0088

The Arctic Amerasia Basin, located between the Canadian margin and Alaska, formed by purported Jurassic–Cretaceous rifting related to the rotation of the Arctic Alaska – Chukotka microcontinent from northern Laurentia. Rifting may have been accompanied by rift shoulder uplift and cooling that is rec...