Structural analysis of the Kobuk fault zone, north-central Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 261-268

  Ave Lallemant H G ^a   Gottschalk, R R ^b   Sisson, V B ^a   Oldow, J S ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALOGY;

FLUID INCLUSION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CRETACEOUS; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; FLUID INCLUSION; JURASSIC; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870839270     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.261     Document Type: Article

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