Cenozoic tectonic processes along the southern Alaska convergent margin

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1055-1056

  Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a   Flesch, Lucy M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONVERGENT MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37449028148     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/focus112007.1     Document Type: Article

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