U.s. Department of the Interior

Geologic and Geochronologic Studies of the Early Proterozoic Kanektok Metamorphic Complex of Southwestern Alaska U.s. Department of the Interior

This Open-File Report makes available a valuable set of geochronological data that were produced more than 25 years ago. In the early 1980s, Donald L. Turner, Robert B. Forbes (since deceased), John N. Aleinikoff, Ian McDougall, and Carl E. Hedge wrote a report about their geochronologic studies of the Kanektok metamorphic complex, a terrane of high-grade metamorphic rocks in the Goodnews Bay quadrangle of southwest Alaska. The report was approved for publication in 1982, but unaccountably was never completed. The geochronological data from the manuscript has been in the ?gray literature? for many years and we felt it important that the data and manuscript be made available for future studies as the data and report are the most extensive and detailed available on the metamorphic complex. We thank Don Turner and John Aleinikoff for permission to publish this manuscript and important data.