Denali fault slip rates and Holocene-late Pleistocene kinematics of central Alaska

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 645-648

  Matmon, A ^a,b   Schwartz, D P ^a   Haeussler, P J ^c   Finkel, R ^d   Lienkaemper, J J ^a   Stenner, H D ^a   Dawson, T E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic isotopes; Denali fault; Offset moraines; Slip rates

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; DENALI FAULT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE SLIP RATE;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; KINEMATICS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; HOLOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747332258     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22361.1     Document Type: Article

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