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Evidence for the sinistral Porcupine shear zone in North Yukon (Canadian Arctic) and geotectonic implications
ABSTRACT Structural analysis of Neoproterozoic to lower Paleozoic rocks near Old Crow, in North Yukon, show that they were affected by widespread, but distributed sinistral shear zone deformation. This tectonic event occurred under brittle-ductile conditions, in the early Paleozoic, prior to intrusion of Late Devonian granitoids of the Old Crow plutonic suite (368–375 Ma). Although outcrops are scattered, the shear zone deformation can be inferred to extend over a broad ~W–E corridor, ~10–20 km-wide and ~145 km long, from eastern Alaska into northern Yukon. The sinistral Porcupine shear zone is interpreted to represent a major, early Paleozoic crustal structure along which elements of NE Laurentian and Caledonian affinities in the Arctic Alaska terrane were transferred across the Arctic region during the Paleozoic. Our observations do not support major Paleogene dextral strike-slip deformation along the Porcupine River near Old Crow.
Structural evidence for sinistral displacement on the Wegener Fault in southern Nares Strait, Arctic Canada
ABSTRACT The sinistral Wegener Fault in the Nares Strait between northwest Greenland and eastern Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic) represents a tectonic element in the Arctic whose existence and significance have been controversial for more than 50 years. Some workers interpret the Wegener Fault as an important early Tertiary transform related to movement of the Greenland plate relative to the North American plate. Others view it as insignificant or reject its existence. While onshore studies in the Canadian portion of the northern Nares Strait region have proven the existence of important sinistral strike-slip faults related to the offshore Wegener Fault, the southern continuation of the Wegener Fault in the southern Kane Basin and Smith Sound is unclear. In particular, Smith Sound has been interpreted as a location of an undisturbed continuation of the Proterozoic basement from Greenland to Ellesmere Island, with only one possible location of the Wegener Fault near the east coast of Ellesmere Island. Our structural studies along the west coast of Smith Sound and adjacent areas of eastern Ellesmere Island suggest a three-phase tectonic evolution. Phase 1 is a brittle deformation (strike-slip faults, partly as conjugate sets) that took place under ~NW–SE shortening. It also occurs at the Smith Sound coast and did not affect the Paleogene deposits. Structures of this phase are assigned to the Paleocene and can be related to the Wegener Fault in the offshore area of Smith Sound just east of the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island. Deposition of thick conglomerates of the Paleocene Cape Lawrence Formation and relatively younger clastic sediments of the Eureka Sound Group (Paleocene–?Eocene) is interpreted to be related to local depocenters associated with the sinistral Wegener Fault. Following uplift and subsidence during normal faulting associated with Phase 2 deformation, younger contractional deformation under ~NE–SW shortening (strike-slip faults, partly as conjugate sets) of Phase 3 deformation also affected the Paleogene deposits. Phases 2 and 3 can both be assigned to the Eocene. Our interpretation points to a polyphase deformational history in the early Paleogene, which partly interfered with deposition of Paleogene clastic sediments. The first deformational phase in the Paleocene is related to the sinistral Wegener Fault, which, in the offshore areas, is not interpreted as a distinct through-going plane but as displaced by ~W–E striking faults. Therefore, our observation and interpretation support the existence of this fault in the southern Nares Strait region, east of the Ellesmere Island coast in Smith Sound.
ABSTRACT Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous forearc basin strata exposed in south-central Alaska record variations in sedimentary basin development associated with late Mesozoic terrane accretion and translation of the Insular terranes (Alexander-Wrangellia-Peninsular) along the western North American margin. Upper Jurassic strata contain a dominant population of Late Jurassic (ca. 150 Ma) detrital zircons with juvenile to intermediate isotopic compositions (ε Hf[ t ] >5) that reflect sediment input from the adjacent oceanic Talkeetna arc, located to the north in a marine forearc basin. By Early Cretaceous time, Early–Late Jurassic (ca. 160 and 198 Ma) and minor Late Devonian–Permian detrital zircon grains that have juvenile to intermediate hafnium compositions (ε Hf[ t ] >5) indicate continued exhumation of the Talkeetna arc and a new sediment contribution from erosion of Insular terrane basement. Upper Cretaceous strata record final suturing of the terrane, resulting in an influx of sediment from the inboard Intermontane terrane, represented by Ordovician–Permian detrital zircon grains with a wide range of hafnium compositions (ε Hf[ t ] >–25). Late Cretaceous detrital zircon ages (ca. 90 and 70 Ma) in these strata reflect establishment of a coeval volcanic arc. Trends toward more-evolved hafnium isotopic data within our data record ~40 m.y. orogenic cycles of crustal thickening during the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic and Late Jurassic that can be linked to Cordilleran-scale deformational events. Overall, we prefer a model where the forearc basin in south-central Alaska, the part of the Intermontane terranes that is today located in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and eastern Alaska, and the part of the Chugach–Prince William terrane found on Kodiak Island were all juxtaposed by Late Cretaceous (Turonian) time.
Petrogenesis of the Dunite Peak ophiolite, south-central Yukon, and the distinction between upper-plate and lower-plate settings: A new hypothesis for the late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Northern Cordillera
The Yukon-Tanana terrane lies within the North American Cordilleran accretionary orogen and contains strongly deformed, coherent eclogite-bearing units that are candidates for wholesale subduction erosion of large blocks of crust. The Yukon-Tanana terrane is a composite continental arc built on a peri-Laurentian substrate that experienced subduction on both sides before it was accreted back onto Laurentia in the Mesozoic. Along the present-day eastern margin of the terrane, eclogites are found as layers and lenses in quartzofeldspathic schist derived from both igneous and sedimentary protoliths, all metamorphosed together during the Permian. In the St. Cyr area, coherent slices of eclogite-bearing crust up to 30 km long and 1–2 km thick have been mapped. Phengite with Si = 3.3–3.4 per formula unit from the host schists indicates that they also record eclogite-facies metamorphism. Detrital zircon was recovered from six host-rock samples collected at three high-pressure (HP) localities (St. Cyr, Ross River, and Last Peak), and from two eclogite-free units. Samples from the eclogite-free units and Last Peak have detrital zircon signatures with prominent Mesoproterozoic and Paleoproterozoic peaks typical of the Snowcap assemblage, the peri-Laurentian substrate of the Yukon-Tanana terrane. Detrital spectra from the St. Cyr and Ross River HP localities contain Precambrian, mostly Mesoproterozoic, zircon with significant Paleozoic peaks that match ages of igneous events in the Yukon-Tanana terrane. The coherent slices of crust containing eclogite, meta-tonalite, and arc-derived metasedimentary rocks are interpreted as pieces of Yukon-Tanana terrane that were eroded from the arc during subduction of oceanic lithosphere and reaccreted to the arc prior to Mesozoic emplacement of the Yukon-Tanana terrane onto North America.