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The Wernecke igneous clasts in Yukon, Canada: evidence for a Paleoproterozoic volcanic arc terrane at 1.7 Ga and its obduction onto ancestral North America

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(Thesis) M.Sc.
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2011-12-15
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All observed Wernecke igneous clasts (WIC) occur within the 1.60 Ga Wernecke Breccias of Yukon, Canada. The clasts range up to 5.4 million m3 in volume, and comprise the 1.71 Ga Bonnet Plume River Intrusions (BPRI), the Slab volcanics, the Devil volcanics, and the Blackstone River megaclast. The WIC were not emplaced through the
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Thesis advisor: Thorkelson, Derek
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