Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera
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Abstract
Abstract The Whitehorse trough is a synorogenic basin in the northern Cordillera that resulted from arc-collision processes along the northwestern margin of North America, but its filling history and tectonic significance remain uncertain. New detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope analyses of 12 rock samples, including six basal sandstones that sit unconformably on Triassic rocks of Stikinia, were combined with published detrital zircon and fossil data to establish the depositional ages of synorogenic Laberge Group strata in Yukon and test proposed links between Intermontane terrane exhumation and basin-filling events. Laberge Group strata yielded 205–170 Ma and 390–252 Ma detrital zircon populations that indicate derivation from local Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic arc and syncollisional plutons and metamorphosed Paleozoic basement rocks of the Stikinia and Yukon-Tanana terranes. Basal sandstone units have Early Jurassic depositional ages that show the Whitehorse trough filled during early Sinemurian, late Sinemurian to Pliensbachian, and Toarcian subsidence events. Late Triassic to Early Jurassic detrital zircon grains confirm that syncollisional plutons near the northern trough were exhumed at 0.5–7.5 mm/yr and replicate their excursion to subchondritic Hf isotope compositions as a result of increasing crustal contributions from Rhaetian to Sinemurian time. The new detrital zircon data, combined with recent constraints for Triassic–Jurassic metamorphism and magmatism in Yukon, require modification of published forearc to syncollisional basin models for the Whitehorse trough. We reinterpret Jurassic subsidence patterns and architecture of the Whitehorse trough to reflect sinistral transtension within a transform fault system that resulted from the reorganization of subduction after end-on arc collision.
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