Origin of the Lisburne Hills-Herald Arch structural belt: Stratigraphic, structural, and fission-track evidence from the Cape Lisburne area, northwestern Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 77-109

  Moore, Thomas E ^a   Dumitru, Trevor A ^b   Adams, Karen E ^a   Witebsky, Susan N ^c   Harris, Anita G ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TURBIDITE;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870950869     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.77     Document Type: Review

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