Kinematics of wrench and divergent‐wrench deformation along a central part of the Border Ranges Fault System, Northern Chugach Mountains, Alaska

Tectonics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 585-611

  Little, Timothy A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; BORDER RANGES FAULT SYSTEM; EXTENSION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; PULL APART BASIN; STRIKE-SLIP; WRENCH DEFORMATION;

USA, ALASKA, CHUGACH MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0025627936     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/TC009i004p00585     Document Type: Article

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