Tertiary uplift of the Mt. Doonerak antiform, central Brooks Range, Alaska: Apatite fission-track evidence from the Trans-Alaska crustal transect

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 179-193

  O'Sullivan, Paul B ^a   Moore, Thomas E ^b   Murphy, John M ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DEFORMATION; EROSION; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CRUSTAL TRANSECT; LATE OLIGOCENE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; UPPER PLATE; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; ZIRCON FISSION TRACKS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

ALLOCHTHON; APATITE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DENUDATION; DISPLACEMENT; FISSION TRACK DATING; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; THRUST FAULT; UPLIFT; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870853683     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.179     Document Type: Article

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