Deformation and exhumation of the Mount Igikpak region, central Brooks Range, Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 111-132

  Toro, J ^a   Gans, P B ^b   McClelland, William C ^c   Dumitru, Trevor A ^d  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GREENSCHIST; ISLAND ARC; ORTHOGNEISS;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870896762     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.111     Document Type: Review

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