Cretaceous-Tertiary evolution of the western Coast Mountains, central southeastern Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 343, Issue , 2000, Pages 159-182

  McClelland, William C ^a,b   Mattinson, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; KINEMATICS; LEAD ALLOYS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

BUOYANCY-DRIVEN; COAST MOUNTAINS; KINEMATIC DATA; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE DEVONIAN; MID-CRETACEOUS; PLUTON EMPLACEMENT; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS;

LANDFORMS;

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; GRANODIORITE; PALEOCENE; PLUTONISM; SHEAR ZONE; TONALITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALASKA; COAST MOUNTAINS; TANANA; UNITED STATES; YUKON FLATS;

EID: 84870905953     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2343-4.159     Document Type: Article

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