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Long-lived Panthalassic remnant: The Bridge River accretionary complex, Canadian Cordillera

¹ Geological Survey of Canada, Cordilleran Division, 100 West Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1R8, Canada
² British Columbia Geological Survey Branch, 553 Superior Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4, Canada

Newly identified radiolarians from ribbon chert of the Bridge River complex in the southeastern Canadian Coast Mountains range in age from Mississippian to late Middle Jurassic. The Bridge River complex and the associated Cadwallader arc and Tyaughton and Methow basins lie between the Intermontane superterrane to the east and the Insular superterrane to the west. Triassic-Middle Jurassic development of the Bridge River subduction-accretion complex records an important component of convergence between these superterranes.

The time span represented in the Bridge River complex (170 m.y.), one of the longest known age ranges for chert sedimentation, suggests that the Bridge River complex contains remnants of a long-lived, potentially far-traveled Panthalassic oceanic domain.