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Timing of Hydrothermal Alteration and Au-Sb-W Mineralization, Stibnite-Yellow Pine District, Idaho
Cretaceous to Oligocene magmatic and tectonic evolution of the western Alaska Range: Insights from U-Pb and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology
The control of preexisting faults on the distribution, morphology, and volume of monogenetic volcanism in the Michoacán-Guanajuato Volcanic Field
ERRATA: Geochemical and geochronological records of tectonic changes along a flat-slab arc-transform junction: Circa 30 Ma to ca. 19 Ma Sonya Creek volcanic field, Wrangell Arc, Alaska
Stitch in the ditch: Nutzotin Mountains (Alaska) fluvial strata and a dike record ca. 117–114 Ma accretion of Wrangellia with western North America and initiation of the Totschunda fault
Geochemical and geochronological records of tectonic changes along a flat-slab arc-transform junction: Circa 30 Ma to ca. 19 Ma Sonya Creek volcanic field, Wrangell Arc, Alaska
Provenance and paleogeography of the Neruokpuk Formation, northwest Laurentia: An integrated synthesis
Geochronology and structural setting of Latest Devonian – Early Carboniferous magmatic rocks, Cape Kiber, northeast Russia
Proterozoic Geochronological Links between the Farewell, Kilbuck, and Arctic Alaska Terranes
Persistent long-term ( c. 24 Ma) exhumation in the Eastern Alaska Range constrained by stacked thermochronology
Abstract To address Miocene–present episodic v. persistent exhumation, we utilize a simple graphical procedure that vertically stacks spatially diverse K-feldspar 40 Ar/ 39 Ar multi-domain diffusion (MDD) models from the length of the approximately 100 km-long high-peak region of the Eastern Alaska Range. We supply additional constraints with 40 Ar/ 39 Ar mica dating because the higher closure-temperature-window places limits on the initiation of rapid Eastern Alaska Range exhumation. We also provide a broad 40 Ar/ 39 Ar K-feldspar minimum closure age data set to add more detail on spatial patterns in the regional exhumation history for the Eastern Alaska Range. We find that rapid and persistent exhumation has occurred in the Eastern Alaska Range since about 24 Ma at a long-term rate of approximately 0.9 km/Ma, but that this rapid exhumation is spatially variable through time. Onset of rapid Eastern Alaska Range exhumation is coincident with the initiation of rapid exhumation in SW Alaska, the Western Alaska Range and the Chugach–Saint Elias Range at around 25 Ma, implying a region-wide deformational response to a change in tectonic forcing. The initiation of highly coupled flat-slab subduction of the Yakutat microplate is probably responsible for this prolonged period of rapid exhumation in southern Alaska. Supplementary material: Sample locations from the Eastern Alaska Range, and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data tables and age spectrum figures are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18603 .
Evidence for an Early Pleistocene glaciation in the Okanagan Valley, southern British Columbia
Jurassic to Early Cretaceous postaccretional sinistral transpression in north-central Chile (latitudes 31–32°S)
Spatial variations in focused exhumation along a continental-scale strike-slip fault: The Denali fault of the eastern Alaska Range
Magmatism and deformation in a terrane suture zone south of the Denali fault, northern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska
Volcanic and granitic rocks of the Jack River igneous field were erupted and emplaced in the suture zone between the accreted Wrangellia composite terrane and the former margin of southern Alaska. The volcanic rocks unconformably overlie Jurassic-Cretaceous shale and sandstone of the Kahiltna assemblage and include 100–300 m of basalt, basaltic andesite, and andesite lava flows overlain by a rhyolite unit that consists of over 900 m of lava flows and pyroclastic deposits. Seven basaltic and rhyolite lava samples yield 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages ranging from 56.0 ± 0.3 to 49.5 ± 0.3 Ma. Two granitic samples yield 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of 54.6 ± 0.4 and 62.7 ± 0.4 Ma. These age dates indicate that the onset of Jack River magmatism at ca. 62.7 Ma coincided with the terminal phase of terrane accretion and continued after accretion to at least 49.5 Ma. The volcanic rocks range between tholeiitic and high-K calc-alkaline series and show a bimodal distribution with respect to silica (dacite is absent). The Jack River basalts are tholeiitic, have rare earth element and high field strength element ratios that are in the range between Pacific enriched mid-ocean-ridge basalts and Hawaiian ocean-island basalts (e.g., La/Yb = 5.0–8.4; Nb/Zr = 0.07–0.11), and have a within-plate geochemistry (e.g., Ti/V >50; high Zr/Y). All of the Jack River volcanic rocks exhibit some degree of enrichment in large ion lithophile and/or fluid mobile elements (e.g., Cs, Ba, Th, U, K, and Pb), although the basalts have low ratios between large ion lithophile and high field strength elements (e.g., Ba/Nb as low as 32.7 and Pb/Nb of 0.28–0.35). The granitic rocks (granites to granodiorites) are strongly depleted in the heavy rare earth elements, and most samples exhibit characteristics of adakites (e.g., Al 2 O 3 >15 weight %, Yb = 0.6–1.2 ppm, Y = 5.5–12.5 ppm, and Sr/Y = 20.4–66.2). The Jack River basalts were derived from partial melts of a mantle source that was more enriched than depleted mid-ocean-ridge basalt mantle and that ranged toward an enriched mantle (EM-I-type) composition.The basalts then evolved by assimilation and fractional crystallization to form intermediate magmas. Rhyolite magmas were formed later as anatectic melts of upper crustal argillaceous rocks (Kahiltna assemblage), resulting in the bimodal volcanism. The granitic adakite magmas may have formed by melting of garnet-bearing metamorphosed sedimentary rocks (meta-Kahiltna assemblage) that formed lower crustal rocks in the suture zone. Although the Jack River igneous rocks do exhibit some arc-like geochemical characteristics (e.g., elevated large ion lithophile elements), they differ from calc-alkaline arc rocks in that (1) they are a bimodal volcanic suite; (2) the rhyolites are not comagmatic with the basaltic and intermediate rocks; (3) the basalts and andesites have higher TiO 2 (>1.5 weight %) than is typical for arc basalts and andesites; (4) the basalts do not exhibit depletion of high field strength elements (e.g., Ta and Nb) with respect to large ion lithophile elements; (5) the basalts have an intraplate geochemical affinity; and (6) adakites are present. These characteristics show that the geochemistry of postcollisional suture zone magmatism can be transitional between calc-alkaline arc and intraplate magmatism. The Jack River volcanic field is deformed into a broad, northeast-trending syncline, which is crosscut by small-scale brittle faults that include northwest- and west-trending normal-slip and oblique-slip faults, and a southeast-dipping reverse fault that places Kahiltna assemblage rocks over the Jack River volcanic rocks. The pattern of Jack River deformation is consistent with right-lateral simple shear along the Denali fault system and indicates an episode of post-49.5 Ma strike-slip along the McKinley strand of the Denali fault. The Jack River rocks, therefore, record the magmatic response to terrane accretion and the kinematics of margin-parallel transport of an accreted terrane assemblage after it was sutured to the continental margin.
Neogene strata of the Tanana basin provide a long-term record of a northward-propagating, transpressional foreland-basin system related to regional shortening of the central Alaska Range and strike-slip displacement on the Denali fault system. These strata are ∼2 km thick and have been deformed and exhumed in thrust faults that form the foothills on the north side of the Alaska Range. The lower part of the sedimentary package, the Usibelli Group, consists of 800 m of mainly Miocene strata that were deposited in fluvial, lacustrine, and peat bog environments of the foredeep depozone of the foreland-basin system. Compositional data from conglomerate and sandstone, as well as recycled Upper Cretaceous palynomorphs, indicate that the Miocene foreland-basin system was supplied increasing amounts of sediment from lithologies currently exposed in thrust sheets located south of the basin. The upper part of the sedimentary package, the Nenana Gravel, consists of 1200 m of mainly Pliocene strata that were deposited in alluvial-fan and braidplain environments in the wedge-top depozone of the foreland-basin system. Compositional data from conglomerate and sandstone, as well as 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of detrital feldspars in sandstone and from granitic clasts in conglomerate, indicate that lithologies exposed in the central Alaska Range provided most of the detritus to the Pliocene foreland-basin system. 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dates from detrital feldspar grains also show that two main suites of plutons contributed sediment to the Nenana Gravel. Detrital feldspars with an average age of 56 Ma are interpreted to have been derived from the McKinley sequence of plutons located south of the Denali fault. Detrital feldspars with an average age of 34 Ma are interpreted to have been derived from plutons located north of the Denali fault. Plutons located south of the Denali fault provided detritus for the lower part of the Nenana Gravel, whereas plutons located north of the Denali fault began to contribute sediment during deposition of the upper part of the Nenana Gravel. This age distribution documented in detrital feldspars of the Nenana Gravel is interpreted as representing a progressive northward exhumation of plutons that were located south of the Pliocene Tanana basin. In contrast to previous studies, we interpret the Usibelli Group and Nenana Gravel to represent a continuum in the evolution of a transpressional foreland basin that began during Miocene time on the north side of the Alaska Range.
Early Tertiary transtension-related deformation and magmatism along the Tintina fault system, Alaska
Transtensional deformation was concentrated in a zone adjacent to the Tintina strike-slip fault system in Alaska during the early Tertiary. The deformation occurred along the Victoria Creek fault, the trace of the Tintina system that connects it with the Kaltag fault; together the Tintina and Kaltag fault systems girdle Alaska from east to west. Over an area of ∼25 by 70 km between the Victoria Creek and Tozitna faults, bimodal volcanics erupted; lacustrine and fluvial rocks were deposited; plutons were emplaced and deformed; and metamorphic rocks cooled, all at about the same time. Plutonic and volcanic rocks in this zone yield U-Pb zircon ages of ca. 60 Ma; 40 Ar/ 39 Ar cooling ages from those plutons and adjacent metamorphic rocks are also ca. 60 Ma. Although early Tertiary magmatism occurred over a broad area in central Alaska, metamorphism and ductile deformation accompanied that magmatism in this one zone only. Within the zone of deformation, pluton aureoles and metamorphic rocks display consistent NE-SW–stretching lineations parallel to the Victoria Creek fault, suggesting that deformation processes involved subhorizontal elongation of the package. The most deeply buried metamorphic rocks, kyanite-bearing metapelites, occur as lenses adjacent to the fault, which cuts the crust to the Moho (Beaudoin et al., 1997). Geochronologic data and field relationships suggest that the amount of early Tertiary exhumation was greatest adjacent to the Victoria Creek fault. The early Tertiary crustal-scale events that may have operated to produce transtension in this area are (1) increased heat flux and related bimodal within-plate magmatism, (2) movement on a releasing stepover within the Tintina fault system or on a regional scale involving both the Tintina and the Kobuk fault systems, and (3) oroclinal bending of the Tintina-Kaltag fault system with counterclockwise rotation of western Alaska.