Cenozoic thermal evolution and tectonics of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia: 1. Fission track dating, apparent uplift rates, and patterns of uplift

Tectonics ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall R. Parrish
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fission Track ◽  
Thermal Evolution ◽  
Fission Track Dating ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Uplift Rates

Application of Apatite Fission-track Dating to the Study of Porphyry Type Mineral Deposits

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 846-851
Author(s):  
Peter A. Christopher
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fission Track ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Fission Track Dating ◽  
Apatite Fission Track ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Thermal Event ◽  
Fission Track Ages ◽  
Apatite Fission Track Dating

Apatite fission-track ages for weakly altered rocks from the Syenite Range and Burwash Landing area of the Yukon Territory, and Cassiar area of British Columbia are shown to be consistent and generally concordant with K–Ar ages obtained on biotite from the same samples. More intensely altered rocks from Granisle Mine and the Copper Mountain area of British Columbia have discordant ages, due in part to alteration of apatite grains and, for samples from the Copper Mountain intrusions, to a Cretaceous (?) thermal event.

Fission-track Dating of Late Tertiary and Quaternary Volcanic Glass from the Mount Edziza Volcano, British Columbia

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1156-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Aumento ◽  
J. G. Souther
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fission Track ◽  
Volcanic Glass ◽  
Fission Track Dating ◽  
Acid Magma ◽  
Carbon 14 ◽  
Track Method ◽  
Late Tertiary

Seventeen specimens of Pliocene to Recent volcanic glass from Mount Edziza, British Columbia, were dated by the fission-track method. Results agree well with paleomagnetic, potassium–argon, carbon-14, and stratigraphic data, offering accurate dates with closer limits of confidence than can be obtained by other methods.The age data supports the petrological evidence for three principal stages of activity, each beginning with eruption of basalt and culminating with eruption of more acid magma.

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