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Cady 1989
Cady, J.W. (1989). Geologic implications of topographic, gravity, and aeromagnetic data in the northern Yukon-Koyukuk province and its borderlands, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/88JB04334. issn: 0148-0227.

The northern Yukon-Koyukuk province is characterized by low elevation and high Bouguer gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies in contrast to the adjacent Brooks Range and Ruby geanticline. Using newly compiled digital topographic, gravity, and aeromagnetic maps, I have divided the province into three geophysical domains. The Koyukuk domain, which is nearly equivalent to the Koyukuk lithotectonic terrane, is a horseshoe-shaped area, open to the south, of low topography, high gravity, and high-amplitude magnetic anomalies caused by an intraoceanic magmatic arc. The Angayucham and Kanuti domains are geophysical subdivisions of the Angayucham lithotectonic terrane that occur along the northern and southeastern margins of the Yukon-Koyukuk province, where oceanic rocks have been thrust over continental rocks of the Brooks Range and Ruby geanticline. Basalt of the Angayucham domain strong gravity highs and weak magnetic highs. The Kanutic domain is distinguished from the Angayucham domain by intense magnetic highs caused by cumulus mafic and ultramafic plutonic rocks, abundant ultramafic mantle tectonices, and magnetic syenite and monzonite.

Long-wavelength, low-intensity magnetic highs and undulating gravity anomalies indicate an undulating basement surface of varied lithology beneath the Kobuk-Koyukuk and Lower Yukon basins. Modeling of gravity and magnetic anomalies shows that oceanic rocks of the Angayucham and Kanuti domains dip inward beneath the Kobuk-Koyukuk basin. The modeling supports, but does not prove, the hypothesis that the crust of the Kobuk-Koyukuk basin is 32--35 km thick, consisting of a tectonically thickened section of Cretaceous volcanic and sedimentary rocks and older oceanic crust. Plutons of the Brooks Range and the southern Ruby geanticline are nonmagnetic, ilmenite series, S-type granites that cause magnetic lows. Plutons of the northern Ruby geanticline are variable in their magnetic properties and cause both highs and lows. Plutons of both the eastern and western Yukon-Koyukuk province are variable in their magnetic expression but commonly cause magnetic lows in contrast to andesite. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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