Latest Cretaceous-Tertiary tectonic evolution of northern Yukon and adjacent Arctic Alaska

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1353-1371

  Lane, Larry S ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC FAULTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; OIL FIELDS; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

CANADA, YUKON TERRITORY; UNITED STATES, ALASKA;

EID: 0032125371     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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