Along strike variations in metamorphism and deformation of the strata of the kahiltna basin, south-central alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 439-453

  McPhillips, Devin ^a  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Range suture zone; Metamorphic petrology; Tectonics; U Pb dating; Wrangellia

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; LATE CRETACEOUS; METAMORPHIC BELTS; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; PLUTON EMPLACEMENT; U-PB DATING; U-PB ZIRCON; WRANGELLIA;

DEFORMATION;

ANDALUSITE; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GLACIER; METAMORPHISM; PALEOCENE; PLUTON; SILL; SILLIMANITE; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE; TONALITE;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749103386     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(17)     Document Type: Article

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