The Quaternary thrust system of the northern Alaska Range

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 196-205

  Bemis, Sean P ^a   Carver, Gary A ^b   Koehler, Richard D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Carver Geologic Inc   (United States)

^c Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OROGENY; QUATERNARY; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; REVERSE FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST FAULT; TRANSITION ZONE;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; DENALI FAULT ZONE; KANTISHNA HILLS; MOUNT MCKINLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862630920     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00695.1     Document Type: Article

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