Geomorphic evidence of active transpressional deformation in the tanana foreland basin, south-central alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 573-592

  Lesh, Mark E ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Stream profiles; Tanana foreland basin; Tectonic geomorphology

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACTIVE TECTONICS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FORELAND BASIN; GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STREAM PROFILES; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

CATCHMENTS;

BLOCK ROTATION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DEFORMATION; DOME; DRAINAGE; FORCED MIGRATION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOGENE; PERTURBATION; RIVER CHANNEL; STRAIN PARTITIONING; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; THRUST; THRUST FAULT;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; FAIRBANKS; KANTISHNA HILLS; NENANA RIVER; TANANA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649854496     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(22)     Document Type: Article

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