Latest Cretaceous forearc basin development along an accretionary convergent margin: South-central Alaska

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 207-224

  Trop, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Detrital geochronology; Fore arc basin; Late Cretaceous; Matanuska Valley

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL GEOCHRONOLOGY; FOREARC BASIN; LATE CRETACEOUS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FOREARC BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLUTON; RECONSTRUCTION; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; CHUGACH MOUNTAINS; COAST RANGES; MATANUSKA GLACIER; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

AMMONOIDEA; BIVALVIA; FORAMINIFERA; INDICATOR MINOR; INOCERAMIDAE; NEREITES;

EID: 38549086264     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26215.1     Document Type: Article

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