Pre-, syn-, and postcollisional stratigraphic framework and provenance of upper triassic-upper cretaceous strata in the northwestern talkeetna mountains, alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 401-438

  Hampton, Brian A ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^b   O'Neill, J Michael ^c   Gehrels, George E ^d   Schmidt, Jeanine ^e   Blodgett, Robert B ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kahiltna; Mesozoic; Stratigraphy; Talkeetna; Wrangellia

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; FAULTING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; LIME; MAPPING; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

KAHILTNA; MESOZOIC; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION; TALKEETNA; WRANGELLIA;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DETRITUS; EMPLACEMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMBRICATION; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; MESOZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE; VALANGINIAN;

ALASKA; ALEXANDER TERRANE; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HONOLULU; OAHU; TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS; TAYLOR MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; YUKON-TANANA TERRANE;

CHITINA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 76749146048     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(16)     Document Type: Article

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