Crustal structure across the central Alaska Range: Anatomy of a Mesozoic collisional zone

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Brennan, Patrick R K ^a   Gilbert, Hersh ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Range; Hines Creek fault; receiver functions; suture zone; Talkeetna fault; Wrangellia composite terrane

Indexed keywords

ALASKA RANGE; HINES CREEK FAULT; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SUTURE ZONE; TALKEETNA FAULT; WRANGELLIA COMPOSITE TERRANE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; MESOZOIC; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955623981     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003519     Document Type: Article

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