Antislope scarps, gravitational spreading, and tectonic faulting in the western Yakutat microplate, south coastal Alaska

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1143-1158

  McCalpin, J P ^a   Bruhn, R L ^b   Pavlis, T L ^c   Gutierrez, F ^d   Guerrero, J ^d   Lucha, P ^d  

^a GEO HAZ Consulting   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BEDDING PLANE; BEDROCK; COAL; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SCARP; FAULTING; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MICROPLATE; OBLIQUE FAULT; PALEOSOL; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SANDSTONE; TECTONICS; TRENCH; TROUGH;

ALABAMA; ALASKA; LAKE MARTIN; UNITED STATES; YAKUTAT;

EID: 80054759077     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00594.1     Document Type: Article

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