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Abstract: Paleomagnetic results are presented for 154 specimens from 16 sites in the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, a small granodioritic intrusion emplaced into Paleozoic gneisses and schists of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane (YTT), west-central Yukon. Stepwise demagnetization of the specimens revealed steep characteristic remanent magnetization directions in 2 normal- and 14 reversed-polarity sites with a mean direction of declination D=65.0°, inclination I =-83.6° (alpha 95 = 4.3°, k =73.8). Geological relations suggest that the stock has not been tilted since its emplacement at 68.5 ± 0.2 Ma. The paleopole for the Seymour Creek stock at 55.2°N, 202.5°E (dp =8.3°, dm=8.5°), plots south of the North American apparent polar wander path. This suggests that the YTT has experienced a net 79° ± 36° counter-clockwise rotation, and a nonsignificant 2.4° ± 7.5° anti-poleward translation relative to North America since 68.5 Ma. This result does not agree with the previously reported large poleward translation and minimal rotation estimated for the YTT from paleomagnetism of the coeval Carmacks Group volcanic rocks.
Authors: McCausland, P.J.A., Symons, D.T.A., Hart, C.J.R., Blackburn, W.H.
Keywords: geophysics, Regional Geology
NTS Mapsheet(s): 105E, 115I
Citation: McCausland, P.J.A., Symons, D.T.A., Hart, C.J.R., Blackburn, W.H., 2001. Paleomagnetic study of the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, Yukon: Minimal geotectonic motion of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2000, Emond, D.S. and Weston, L.W. (eds.), Exploration and Geological Sciences Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 207-216.
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