Permian exhumation of the Buffalo Pitts orogenic peridotite massif, northern Cordillera, Yukon.(Report)

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | March 1, 2007| | Copyright

Abstract: We report the results of a geochemical and U-Pb zircon geochronological study aimed at constraining the timing and tectonic setting of the exhumation of an orogenic peridotitic mantle massif in central Yukon within northern Canadian Cordillera. The Buffalo Pitts orogenic massif is inferred to have been exhumed into continental metasedimentary rocks within the pericratonic Yukon-Tanana terrane. Structurally admixed with the peridotite were boudins of metaleucogabbro and metatroctolite. A metamorphic aureole, defined by migmatite with abundant leucosome, characterizes ...

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