Thrust-top basin formation along a suture zone, Cantwell basin, Alaska Range: Implications for development of the Denali fault system

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 505-523

  Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a   Trop, Jeffrey M ^a   Sweet, Arthur R ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

ACCRETIONARY TECTONICS; ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; DENALI FAULT SYSTEM; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; PALYNOLOGICAL ASSEMBLAGE; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; BASIN FORMATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAXIMUM THICKNESS; NORTH AMERICAN; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS;

FAULT SLIPS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; CAMPANIAN; CENOZOIC; COMPOSITE; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FORELAND BASIN; MAASTRICHTIAN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; THRUST FAULT; ACCRETION; DEFORMATION; PIGGYBACK BASIN; THRUST TOP BASIN;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; DENALI FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES; CANTWELL BASIN; USA;

EID: 0030770020     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0505:TTBFAA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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