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Brooks Range
Basement domain in the Alaska
Geologic information
Region
Alaska
Crust
Type:
Passive margin
Formation age:
2000 Ma
Notes
Brookian crust, Baltica origin
Geographic extent
North Slope
,
Northwest Arctic
,
Yukon-Koyukuk
Bibliographic references
Moore, T.E., Wallace, W.K., Bird, K.J., Karl, S.M., Mull, C.G., and Dillon, J.T., 1994, Geology of northern Alaska, in Plafker, George, and Berg, H.C., eds., The geology of Alaska: Geological Society of America Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 49–140.
Fuis, G.S., Moore, T.E., Plafker, G., Brocher, T.M., Fisher, M.A., Mooney, W.D., Nokleberg, W.J., Page, R.A., Beaudoin, B.C., Christensen, N.I., Levander, A.R., Lutter, W.J., Saltus, R.W., and Ruppert, N.A., 2008, Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating and synchronous foreland thrusting: Geology, v. 36, p. 267–270.
Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Harris, A.G., Moore, T.E., Bleick, H.A., and Siwiec, B.R., 2008, Bedrock geologic map of the southern Brooks Range, Alaska, and accompanying conodont data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1149, scale 1:250,000, 88 p.