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Hillhouse, J.W. and Gromme, C.S. (1988). Early Cretaceous paleolatitude of the Yukon-Koyukuk Province, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 93: doi: 10.1029/88JB03133. issn: 0148-0227. |
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We report results from a paleomagnetic study of the Yukon-Koyukuk province, a key region for reconstructing the Cretaceous paleogeography of northern Alaska and northeastern Asia. The province lies between the displaced continental fragment of Arctic Alaska and the accreted terranes of southern Alaska. Although Lower Cretaceous volcanogenic rocks of the Yukon-Koyukuk province preserve primary remanent magnetizations, the primary component is masked by a pervasive overprint. The overprinting magnetization, which has dual polarity, was acquired after a Late Cretaceous orogeny left the region highly deformed. By fitting planes to tilt-corrected thermal demagnetization data and solving for the best intersection of the corresponding remagnetization circles, we separated the primary component, presumably a vestige of the original thermoremanent magnetization, from the overprinting component of the natural remanence. The primary magnetization corresponds to a mean paleopole of Early Cretaceous age at 60.2¿N, 159¿E. The mean paleolatitude is 69¿N with the 95% confidence ellipse ranging from 60¿ to 75¿N. This analysis was successful because the tilt corrections of the sampled strata had sufficient variation to ensure a strong intersection of the remagnetization circles. We infer that Lower Cretaceous rocks of the Brooks Range and the Yukon-Koyukuk province were once separated by a wide ocean basin that was closed by subduction, probably during the Cretaceous. The northern limb of the Angayucham terrane, which lies between the Brooks Range and the Yukon-Koyukuk province, may contain remanants of the now-closed ocean basin. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1988 |
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Keywords
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Reversals (process, timescale, magnetostratigraphy), Information Related to Geologic Time, Mesozoic, Information Related to Geographic Region, North America |
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