Baltica paleogeographic continental block
73Columns
8
Packages
15
Units
28
Age
1,000–323.4 Ma
(676.6 Myr)Area
55,735 km²
Max thickness
3,247 m
Lithologies7
Environments3
References
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- Strauss, J.V., Macdonald, F.A., Taylor, J.F., Repetski, J.E., McClelland, W.C. Laurentian origin for the North Slope of Alaska: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Arctic. Lithosphere, 5(5), 477-482. 2013.
- Wilson, F.H., Hults, C.P., Mull, C.G., Karl, S.M. Geologic map of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3340, 197 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:584,000. 2015.
- Lane, L.S., Gehrels, G.E., Layer, P.W.Lane, L.S., Gehrels, G.E., Layer, P.W. Provenance and paleogeography of the Neruokpuk Formation, northwest Laurentia: An integrated synthesis. Bulletin, 128(1-2), 239-257. 2016.
- Nelson, L.L., Strauss, J.V., Crockford, P.W., Cox, G.M., Johnson, B.G., Ward, W., Colpron, M., McClelland, W.C., Macdonald, F.A. Geochemical constraints on the provenance of pre-Mississippian sedimentary rocks in the North Slope subterrane of Yukon and Alaska, in Piepjohn, K., Strauss, J.V., Reinhardt, L., McClelland, W.C., eds., Circum-Arctic Structural Events: Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Margins and Trans-Arctic Links with Adjacent Orogens: Geological Society of America Special Paper 541. 2018.
