Emplacement of the resurrection peninsula ophiolite in the southern alaska forearc during a ridge-trench encounter

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B12, 1999, Pages 29025-29054

  Kusky, Timothy M ^a   Young, Charles P ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION;

ALASKA; RESSURECTION PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17444434206     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900265     Document Type: Article

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