Dextral-slip reactivation of an arc-forearc boundary during Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene oblique convergence in the northern Cordillera

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 371, Issue , 2003, Pages 141-169

  Roeske, Sarah M ^a   Snee, Lawrence W ^b   Pavlis, Terry L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chugach accretionary complex; Dextral strike slip; Late Cretaceous; Oblique convergence; Southern Alaska

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRISMS; ZIRCON;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; DEXTRAL STRIKE-SLIP; LATE CRETACEOUS; OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE; SOUTHERN ALASKA;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AUTOCORRELATION; BATHOLITH; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DISPLACEMENT; EOCENE; FOREARC BASIN; PLUTON; REACTIVATION; SLIP; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ALASKA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COAST RANGES; GLACIER BAY; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; UNITED STATES; VANCOUVER ISLAND; WRANGELL MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84870880051     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2371-X.141     Document Type: Article

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