A kinematic model for the southern Alaska orocline based on regional fault patterns

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 383, Issue , 2004, Pages 161-172

  Glen, Jonathan M G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Faulting; Kinematic model; Orocline; Southern Alaska; Tectonic

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FAULTING; KINEMATICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; KINEMATIC MODEL; LATE CRETACEOUS; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; OROCLINE; PHYSIOGRAPHIC FEATURES; SOUTHERN ALASKA; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCRETION; BENDING; COAST; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EOCENE; FAULT; MESOZOIC; MOVEMENT; PALEOZOIC; RUPTURE; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE; THRUST;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YAKUTAT;

EID: 84874958404     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2383-3(2004)383[161:AKMFTS]2.0.CO     Document Type: Article

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