Structure of the actively deforming fold-thrust belt of the St. Elias orogen with implications for glacial exhumation and three-dimensional tectonic processes

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 991-1019

  Pavlis, Terry L ^a   Chapman, James B ^a,f   Bruhn, Ronald L ^b   Ridgway, Kenneth ^c   Worthington, Lindsay L ^d,g   Gulick, Sean P S ^d   Spotila, James ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SandRidge Energy Inc   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; DETACHMENT FOLD; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; OROGENY; OVERPRINTING; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT;

ALASKA; ICY BAY; SAINT ELIAS MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870370076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00753.1     Document Type: Article

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