Regional stratigraphy of the Brooks Range and North Slope, Arctic Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-8

  Handschy, James W ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION;

FOLD-THRUST BELTS; LATE JURASSIC; MISSISSIPPIANS; NORTHERN ALASKA; OROGENIC EVENTS; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC HISTORY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MISSISSIPPIAN; OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THRUST FAULT;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870803480     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.1     Document Type: Article

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