Stratigraphic succession and U-Pb geochronology from the Teslin suture zone, south-central Yukon

A lithologic succession is recognized in tectonites of the eastern Teslin suture zone in south-central Yukon. Metagraywacke and quartzite, marble, mafic metavolcanics, and interbedded metagraywacke and argillite outcrop on both limbs of an upright northwest-trending syncline at Little Salmon Lake. A body of equigranular granodiorite intrudes the basal stratigraphic units. The granodiorite and its host sediments were penetratively deformed during top-to-the-SW shearing and greenschist facies metamorphism. The granodiorite gives a Devono-Mississippian U-Pb zircon age (353 +1.3/-1.4 Ma) which is interpreted as the minimum age of crystallization. This provides a minimum depositional age for these suture zone protoliths. Based on the sedimentary succession and the age constraints, the eastern suture zone protoliths show a clear genetic link to other pericratonic terranes in the northern Cordillera.

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Government of Yukon

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2026-08-26