| Titre | Thermochronology of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, West-Central Yukon: Evidence for Jurassic Extension and Exhumation in the Northern Canadian Cordillera |
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| Auteur | Knight, E; Schneider, D A; Ryan, J |
| Source | Journal of Geology vol. 121, 2013 p. 371-400, https://doi.org/10.1086/670721 |
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| Année | 2013 |
| Séries alt. | Secteur des sciences de la Terre, Contribution externe 20120375 |
| Éditeur | University of Chicago Press |
| Document | publication en série |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1086/670721 |
| Media | papier; en ligne; numérique |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Yukon |
| SNRC | 105M/13; 105M/14; 106D/03; 106D/04; 106D/05; 106D/06; 116A/01; 116A/02; 116A/07; 116A/08; 115P/15; 115P/16 |
| Région | Northern Cordillera; Stewart River; Glenlyon; Finlayson; Yukon-Tanana Upland |
| Lat/Long OENS | -136.0000 -131.0000 63.0000 61.0000 |
| Sujets | domaines structuraux; roches métamorphiques; déformation; roches plutoniques; datations argon-argon; datation argon-argon; rapports uranium-thorium; datations au uranium-thorium; datations radiométriques;
datation radiométrique; Terrane de Yukon-Tanana; géochronologie; pétrologie ignée et métamorphique; Paléozoïque; Dévonien; Mississippien; Pennsylvanien |
| Illustrations | cartes de localisation; photographies; graphiques; tableaux; photomicrographies |
| Programme | GEM : La géocartographie de l'énergie et des minéraux Gisements polymétalliques - nord-ouest de la Cordillère canadienne (Yukon et
Colombie-Britannique) |
| Diffusé | 2013 07 01 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
In the McQuesten area of the central Yukon, the Willow Lake fault juxtaposes two crustal domains: i) on the northeast side, the Reid Lakes complex, an
unmetamorphosed and predominantly undeformed Devono-Mississippian assemblage of plutonic and volcanic rocks, and ii) on the southwest side, typical Yukon-Tanana terrane (YTT), deformed greenschist to amphibolite facies metamorphosed pre-Late Devonian
to Late Permian rocks of the Canadian Cordillera. SHRIMP U-Pb ages delineate Middle to Late Paleozoic arc magmatism and fit key units into the regional lithotectonic framework of the YTT. Notably, ca. 193 Ma zircon overgrowths and patches of
recrystallized zircon with low Th/U ratios are recorded in samples proximal to the fault. Mississippian (ca. 349 to 325 Ma) 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages from biotite and hornblende of the Reid Lakes complex suggest cooling immediately following volcanism
and batholith emplacement. Plutonic samples near the fault trace and exhibiting weak to high strain yield younger ca. 193 to 191 Ma biotite 40Ar/39Ar ages. Zircon (U-Th)/He ages from the magmatic complex reflect ca. 216 to 214 Ma cooling through the
uppermost crust of structurally higher volcanogenic rocks, followed by ca. 159 to 130 Ma cooling of the deeper-seated plutonic phase. Across the Willow Lake fault, YTT metamorphic rocks yielded ca. 197 to 165 Ma biotite and hornblende 40Ar/39Ar ages
and ca. 113 to 90 Ma zircon (U-Th)/He ages. The marked step in cooling ages across the fault and the juxtaposition of the deformed rocks against undeformed rocks strongly indicates the Willow Lake fault is extensional (top down to the northeast), and
exhumed the middle crust commencing in the Early Jurassic. Magmatism of the Aishihik suite of the Stikinia/Quesnellia arc in the McQuesten area yielded a zircon age of ca. 205 Ma and 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages of the suite at ca. 205-196 Ma. In
conjunction with the presence of epidote that appears to be magmatic in origin, the Aishihik suite cooled rapidly and was
exhumed from mid-crustal levels, further illustrating the significance of the Jurassic event that exhumed the central belt of
Yukon-Tanana rocks. A similar tectonothermal evolution has been documented in the nearby Stewart River area, along strike from McQuesten, which was attributed to transtensional exhumation and cooling during slab rollback, leading to unroofing of the
outboard regions of the terrane. The Yukon Tanana terrane in the region is bounded on its northeast side by the dextral Eocene Tintina fault. We suggest that Early Jurassic extensional exhumation of this domain was mechanically linked to a Jurassic
manifestation of the Teslin Fault system and was more widespread that previously considered, likely accommodating crustal thinning from the Yukon-Tanana upland of eastern Alaska to the Glenlyon region of the central Yukon. Parts of this system may
have been reactivated and overprinted as part of the Eocene Tintina fault, masking the early history. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 292192 |
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