Seismic profiling constraints on the evolution of the central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 269-291

  Wissinger, E S ^a,d   Levander, A R ^a   Oldow, J S ^b   Fuis, G S ^c   Lutter, W J ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC ROCKS; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CENTRAL RANGES; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LOWER PALEOZOIC; SEISMIC LINES; SEISMIC PROFILING; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; UPPER CRUST;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALLOCHTHON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DUPLEX; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OROGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST FAULT;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870775270     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.269     Document Type: Article

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