Geology and Mesozoic structural history of the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 195-223

  Gottschalk, Richard R ^a   Oldow, John S ^b   Ave Lallemant H G ^c  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; RIVERS; ROCKS; TEMPERATURE;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; METAMORPHIC GRADE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LEVELS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEVONIAN; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT; FAULTING; GEOLOGY; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; THRUST FAULT;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870851881     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.195     Document Type: Article

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