Deep-water facies of the Lisburne Group, west-central Brooks Range, Alaska
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Abstract
Deep-water lithofacies of the Lisburne Group (chiefly Carboniferous) occur in thurst sheets in the western part of the foreland fold-and-thrust belt of the Brooks Range and represent at least three discrete units. The Kuna Formation (Brooks Range allochthon) consists mostly of spiculitic mudstone and lesser shale; subordinate carbonate layers are chiefly diagenetic dolomite. The Akmalik Chert (Picnic Creek allochthon) is mostly radiolarian-spiculitic chert; rare limy beds are calcitized radiolarite. The Rim Butte unit (Ipnavik river allochthon) consists chiefly of calcareous turbidites, derived from shallow- and deep-water sources, interbedded with spiculitic mudstone. Much of the material in the turbidites came from a contemporaneous carbonate platform and margin, but some fossils and lithic clasts were eroded from older, already lithified carbonate-platform rocks. All three units appear to be roughly coeval in the Howard Pass area and are chiefly late Tournaisian and early Viséan (late Early Mississippian) in age.
Shallow-water lithofacies of the Lisburne Group exposed in the Howard Pass area (Brooks Range allochthon) are mostly of Viséan and younger (Late Mississippian) age. Thus, these carbonate-platform rocks were not the source of the calcareous turbidites in the Rim Butte unit. Rim Butte turbidites could have been derived from older carbonate-platform rocks such as the Utukok Formation of Tournaisian age (Kelly River allochthon) exposed mainly to the west of the Howard Pass quadrangle.
Suggested Citation
Dumoulin, J.A., Harris, A.G., Schmidt, J.M., 1992, Deep-water facies of the Lisburne Group, west-central Brooks Range, Alaska, in Proceedings: 1992 international conference on Arctic margins (MMS 94-0040), Anchorage, AK, September 2-3, 1992, p. 77-82.
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| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Deep-water facies of the Lisburne Group, west-central Brooks Range, Alaska |
| Year Published | 1992 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management |
| Publisher location | Anchorage, AK |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Larger Work Title | Proceedings: 1992 international conference on Arctic margins (MMS 94-0040) |
| First page | 77 |
| Last page | 82 |
| 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 |