Deformation and structure in the Chugach metamorphic complex, southern Alaska: Crustal architecture of a transpressional system from a down plunge section

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 992-1012

  Scharman, Mitchell R ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^a   Day, Erik M ^a   O'Driscoll, Leland J ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOLDING; GNEISS; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METAMORPHISM; PALEOGENE; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

ALASKA; CHUGACH MOUNTAINS; COAST RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955443384     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00646.1     Document Type: Article

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