An Overview of the Neotectonics of Interior Alaska: Far-Field Deformation from the Yakutat Microplate Collision

Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 83-108

  Haeussler, Peter J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake zones Alaska; Geodynamics Alaska; Geology, Structural Alaska

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; SUBSIDENCE;

ACTIVE STRUCTURES; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; COLLISION ZONE; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; EARTHQUAKE ZONES; FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84952779466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/179GM05     Document Type: Chapter

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