Upper plate proxies for flat-slab subduction processes in southern Alaska

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 348-360

  Finzel, Emily S ^a   Trop, Jeffrey M ^b   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a   Enkelmann, Eva ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alaska; Flat slab subduction; Geochronology; Provenance; Sedimentary basin; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

ALASKA; FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRISMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAGMATISM; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PLATE MOTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952103314     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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