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Koyukuk-Indian Mountain

Basement domain in the Alaska

Geologic information

Region Alaska
Crust
Formation age: 175-125 Ma
Accretion
Type: Collisional
Age: 135-115 Ma
Notes Koyukuk arc

Geographic extent

Northwest Arctic, Yukon-Koyukuk

Bibliographic references

Arth, J.G., Zmuda, C.C., Foley, N.K., Criss, R.E., Patton, W.W., Jr., and Miller, T.P., 1989a, Isotopic and trace element variations in the Ruby batholith, Alaska, and the nature of the deep crust beneath the Ruby and Angayucham terranes: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 15,941–15,955.Box, S.E., and Patton, W.W., Jr., 1989, Igneous history of the Koyukuk terrane, western Alaska—Constraints on the origin, evolution and ultimate collision of an accreted island arc terrane: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 15,843–15,867.Patton, W.W., Jr., and Box, S.E. 1989, Tectonic setting of the Yukon-Koyukuk basin and its borderlands, western Alaska: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, n. B11, p.15,807–15,820.Patton, W.W., Jr., Wilson, F.H., Labay, K.A., and Shew, N., 2009, Geologic map of the Yukon-Koyukuk basin, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2909, scale 1:250,000, 26 p.