Devonian-Carboniferous paleogeography and orogenesis, northern Yukon and adjacent Arctic Alaska

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 679-694

  Lane, Larry S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

OROGENESIS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC TRANSPORT;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY; FOLDING; OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; THRUST FAULT;

ALASKA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; RICHARDSON MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 34547857757     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-131     Document Type: Article

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