Yakutat collision and strain transfer across the northern Canadian Cordillera

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 495-498

  Mazzotti, Stéphane ^a   Hyndman, Roy D ^a  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collision; Crustal shortening; Intraplate tectonics; Northern Cordillera; Rheology; Yakutat

Indexed keywords

LOWER CRUST;

DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN;

GEOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; COLLISION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA; GULF OF ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84879886942     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0495:YCASTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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