Exhumation rates in the St. Elias Mountains, Alaska

Tectonophysics

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Sheaf, Michael A ^a   Serpa, Laura ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion rates; Glacial; Gulf of Alaska; Sedimentation rates; Seismic reflection; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIOTECTONICS; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALASKA; ST. ELIAS MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037860822     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00124-0     Document Type: Article

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