Exhumation at orogenic indentor corners under long-term glacial conditions: Example of the St. Elias orogen, Southern Alaska

Tectonophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 241-256

  Spotila, James A ^a   Berger, Aaron L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacial erosion; Indentor corners; Low temperature thermochronology; St. Elias orogen; Terrane accretion

Indexed keywords

A-TRANSFORM; BACKGROUND LEVEL; COLLISION ZONE; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; CONVERGENT SYSTEMS; COOLING AGE; COOLING HISTORY; DATA SETS; DEFORMATION PATTERN; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GLACIAL CLIMATE; GLACIAL EROSION; LOW TEMPERATURES; OROGENS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE PROCESS; TERRANE ACCRETION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; ROCKS; SOIL MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; AGE DETERMINATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; COOLING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GLACIAL EROSION; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALASKA; SAINT ELIAS MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955012562     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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