Detrital zircon ages from the Chugach terrane, southern Alaska, reveal multiple episodes of accretion and erosion in a subduction complex

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 459-462

  Amato, Jeffrey M ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FOREARC; JURASSIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAGMATISMS; MESOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RIDGE SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION EROSION; U-PB ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ZIRCON;

ACCRETION; AGE DETERMINATION; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; PROBABILITY; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; CHUGACH MOUNTAINS; COAST RANGES; UNITED STATES;

CHITINA;

EID: 77953947358     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30719.1     Document Type: Article

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