Identifying Active Structures in the Kayak Island and Pamplona Zones: Implications for Offshore Tectonics of the Yakutat Microplate, Gulf of Alaska

Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 257-268

  Worthington, Lindsay L ^a   Gulick, Sean P S ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake zones Alaska; Geodynamics Alaska; Geology, Structural Alaska

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; ACTIVE DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; EARTHQUAKE ZONES; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES;

GEODYNAMICS;

EID: 84952768094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/179GM14     Document Type: Chapter

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