Crustal structure of the Yakutat terrane and the evolution of subduction and collision in southern Alaska

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Worthington, Lindsay L ^a,b   Van Avendonk, Harm J A ^a   Gulick, Sean P S ^a   Christeson, Gail L ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXHUMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES; YAKUTAT;

EID: 84856345926     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008493     Document Type: Article

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