Stratigraphy, depositional systems, and provenance of the lower cretaceous kahiltna assemblage, western alaska range: Basin development in response to oblique collision

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 307-343

  Kalbas, James L ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^b   Gehrels, George E ^c  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Basin development; Kahiltna assemblage; Suture zone

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CROPS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LEAD ALLOYS; MAPPING; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; BASIN DEVELOPMENT; COMPOSITIONAL DATA; DENALI FAULT SYSTEM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; KAHILTNA ASSEMBLAGE; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION;

DEPOSITION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DETRITUS; DEVONIAN; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LITHOFACIES; MESOZOIC; MISSISSIPPIAN; OUTCROP; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749168074     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(13)     Document Type: Article

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