Geologic map and summary of the evolution of the Kigluaik Mountains gneiss dome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 380, Issue , 2004, Pages 295-306

  Amato, Jeffrey M ^a   Miller, Elizabeth L ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extension; Geochronology; Geologic map; Gneiss dome; Magmatism; Metamorphism

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; EXTENSION; GNEISS DOME; MAGMATISMS; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRETCHING DIRECTION; STRUCTURAL SECTIONS;

DOMES;

AMPHIBOLITE; BLUESCHIST; DOME; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GNEISS; GRANULITE; LINEATION; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT;

ALASKA; KIGLUAIK MOUNTAINS; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870852923     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2380-9.295     Document Type: Article

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