The border ranges fault system, southern alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 95-127

  Pavlis, Terry L ^a   Roeske, Sarah M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaskan tectonics; Cenozoic; Forearc backstop; Mesozoic; Strike slip faulting

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; EROSION; LAKES; LANDFORMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PIERCING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CENOZOIC; FOREARC; MESOZOIC; RESULTANT DEFORMATION; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE SLIP SYSTEMS; SUBDUCTION EROSION;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCRETION; CONTRACTION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; DUPLEX; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; FLYSCH; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; KLIPPE; LIMB; MESOZOIC; MOUNTAIN; PALEOGENE; REACTIVATION; RECOGNITION; RECORD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALASKA; CHUGACH MOUNTAINS; COAST RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749166303     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(05)     Document Type: Article

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