Submarine fan deposystems and tectonics of a Late Cretaceous forearc basin along an accretionary convergent plate boundary, MacColl Ridge Formation, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 433-458

  Trop, Jeffrey M ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a   Sweet, Arthur R ^b   Layer, Paul W ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; FOREARC BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES; WRANGELL MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0033402838     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e98-103     Document Type: Article

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