Jurassic paleobiogeography of Alaska

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Abstract

Jurassic marginal seas occupied considerable areas in southern and northern Alaska and in the western part of the Kuskokwim region of southwestern Alaska. They appear to have been absent during late Callovian time, much restricted during Hettangian, Bathonian, early Oxfordian and late Tithonian time, and most extensive during Sinemurian, Bajocian, and late Oxfordian to middle Tithonian time. A large area in central Alaska was probably never covered. A southwestern prolongation of that area from the Talkeetna Mountains westward to the western end of the Alaska Peninsula was the site of granitic intrusions during late Early Jurassic time and of extensive erosion during Middle and Late Jurassic time. Variations in the rate of uplift of the area of these granitic intrusive rocks may explain why marine transgressions and regressions were at different times in southern than in northern Alaska during the Bajocian and Bathonian. Connection of the northern and southern marginal seas occurred through Yukon Territory and easternmost Alaska.

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