Development of a subhorizontal decoupling horizon in a transpressional system, Chugach metamorphic complex, Alaska: Evidence for rheological stratification of the crust

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 371, Issue , 2003, Pages 191-216

  Pavlis, Terry L ^a   Sisson, Virginia B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border Ranges fault; Chugach metamorphic complex; Crustal rheology; Down plunge crustal section; Forearc sliver; Plate reorganization; Polyphasedeformation; Ridge subduction; Strike slip; Triple junction

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RIVERS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CHUGACH METAMORPHIC COMPLEX; CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY; DOWN-PLUNGE CRUSTAL SECTION; FOREARC; POLYPHASEDEFORMATION; RIDGE SUBDUCTION; STRIKE-SLIP; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

FAULT SLIPS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; PHYLLITE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK;

EID: 84870945579     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2371-X.191     Document Type: Article

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