The Suckling Hills Fault, Kayak Island Zone, and accretion of the Yakutat microplate, Alaska

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Chapman, James B ^a,b   Worthington, Lindsay L ^c   Pavlis, Terry L ^a   Bruhn, Ronald L ^d   Gulick, Sean P ^e  

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

^b SandRidge Energy Inc   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION;

COMPLEX DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION PATTERN; FAULT NETWORKS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; MICROPLATES; PLEISTOCENE; REFOLDING; REVERSE FAULTS;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MICROPLATE; OROGENY; OVERPRINTING; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES; YAKUTAT;

EID: 83455205792     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002945     Document Type: Article

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