Structure, cr-chemistry, and age of the border ranges ultramafic-mafic complex: a suprasubduction zone ophiolite complex

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 207-225

  Kusky, Timothy M ^a   Glass, Adam ^b   Tucker, Robert ^c  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b Department of Geological Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Chrome; Chugach; Ophiolite; Talkeetna arc

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; CHROME; CHUGACH; OPHIOLITE; TALKEETNA ARC;

FAULTING;

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CHROMITE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DUNITE; FAULT; GABBRO; ISLAND ARC; MASS BALANCE; MOUNTAIN; OPHIOLITE; PLUTONISM; PYROXENITE; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE; ZONE;

ALASKA; CHUGACH MOUNTAINS; COAST RANGES; KENAI PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749152352     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(09)     Document Type: Article

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