Yakataga Fold-and-Thrust Belt: Structural Geometry and Tectonic Implications of a Small Continental Collision Zone

Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 237-256

  Wallace, Wesley K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake zones Alaska; Geodynamics Alaska; Geology, Structural Alaska

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COAL DEPOSITS; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROOFS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE ZONES; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICA; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84952761721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/179GM13     Document Type: Chapter

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