MSc student Adam Wiest completed his second and final season of fieldwork on Mesozoic synorogenic strata that crop out along the Yukon-Tanana - Slide Mountain terrane boundary in the Faro area of central Yukon. The objectives of 2019 field studies were to investigate contact relationships between Lower Jurassic debris-flow and Upper Triassic(?) turbidite units of the Faro Peak formation (outlined in Wiest and Beranek, 2019) with metasedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Yukon-Tanana and Slide Mountain terranes. Rock samples collected during this field season will undergo detrital zircon laser ablation split-stream (LASS) ICP-MS analysis to constrain the provenance and maximum depositional age of the Faro Peak formation and its significance to the exhumation histories of Intermontane terranes in the northern Canadian Cordillera. This research is supported by the Yukon Geological Survey and Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) Program at Natural Resources Canada.
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