"Arc-continent collision" of the Aleutian-Komandorsky arc into Kamchatka: Insight into Quaternary tectonic segmentation through Pleistocene marine terraces and morphometric analysis of fluvial drainage

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 827-842

  Pedoja, K ^a,b,c   Authemayou, C ^d   Pinegina, T ^e   Bourgeois, J ^f   Nexer, M ^a,b,c   Delcaillau, B ^a,b,c   Regard, V ^g,h,i  

^a NORMANDIE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UCBN   (France)

^c Laboratoire Morphodynamique Continentale et Cotiere   (France)

^d Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^h INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

ⁱ CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

collision; geomorphometry; Kamchatka; Kamchatsky Peninsula; marine terrace sequence

Indexed keywords

FAULTING;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; COLLISION; FLUVIALS; GEOMORPHOMETRY; KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATSKY PENINSULA; MARINE TERRACE SEQUENCE; PLEISTOCENE; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY; UPLIFT RATE;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HOLOCENE; ISLAND ARC; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MORPHOMETRY; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATKA PENINSULA; KOMANDORSKI ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880220325     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tect.20051     Document Type: Article

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