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Abstract
Fault-bounded successions of pre-Carboniferous (meta)carbonate rocks occur throughout northern Alaska. Successions studied in detail are those in the York Mountains (Seward Peninsula), the western and eastern Baird Mountains (western Brooks Range), the Snowden Mountain area (central Brooks Range), and the Sublik and Sadlerochit Mountains (eastern Brooks range); they are correlated on the basis of the lithofacies and conodont biostratigraphy. Available lithologic and biogeographic data are best explained by postulating that these successions accumulated on a single continental margin or platform that had faunal exchange with both Siberia and North America, rather than on a series of discrete platforms juxtaposed by later tectonic events.
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| Publication type | Conference Paper |
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| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Correlation of pre-Carboniferous carbonate successions of northern Alaska |
| Year Published | 1992 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management |
| Publisher location | Anchorage, AK |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | 5 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Proceedings: 1992 international conference on Arctic margins (MMS 94-0040) |
| First page | 65 |
| Last page | 69 |
| Conference Title | 1992 International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM) |
| Conference Location | Anchorage, AK |
| Conference Date | September 2-3, 1992 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Other Geospatial | Brooks Range, Eastern Baird Mountains, Sadlerochit Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Shublik Mountains, Western Baird Mountains, York Mountains |
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