Sedimentary record of the tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Upper jurassic-lower cretaceous nutzotin mountains sequence, eastern alaska range, alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 345-377

  Manuszak, Jeffrey D ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a   Trop, Jeffrey M ^b   Gehrels, George E ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Range; Chisana arc; Nutzotin basin; Nutzotin Mountains sequence; Wrangellia terrane

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COARSENING; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; LEAD ALLOYS; LIME; LIMESTONE; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; SHALE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

ALASKA RANGE; CHISANA ARC; NUTZOTIN BASIN; NUTZOTIN MOUNTAINS SEQUENCE; WRANGELLIA TERRANE;

LANDFORMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; BLACK SHALE; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FORELAND BASIN; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; ISLAND ARC; PALEOCURRENT; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE; TITHONIAN;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; UNITED STATES;

CHITINA;

EID: 76749172222     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(14)     Document Type: Article

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