The Coast shear zone; a post-accretionary, intra plate transpressional structure in Southeastern Alaska

Abstract

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Vol.29(6), pp.82-83

Geological Society of America, 1997 annual meeting

1997

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Alaska

North America

Structural Analysis

Structural Geology

United States

accretion

Alexander Terrane

Cenozoic

Cheyenne Belt

Coast Mountains

Coast shear zone

Cretaceous

deformation

displacements

faults

foliation

Gravina Belt

kinematics

lineation

lower Tertiary

Mesozoic

Salmon River suture zone

shear zones

Southeastern Alaska

strain

strike-slip faults

Tertiary

transpression

Upper Cretaceous

Yukon-Tanana Terrane

Title: Subtitle: The Coast shear zone; a post-accretionary, intra plate transpressional structure in Southeastern Alaska
Creators: William C McClelland - University of Idaho
Basil Tikoff - Rice University
Resource Type: Abstract
Publication Details: Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Vol.29(6), pp.82-83
Conference: Geological Society of America, 1997 annual meeting
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA)
ISSN: 0016-7592
Alternative title: Geological Society of America, 1997 annual meeting
Language: English
Date published: 1997
Academic Unit: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Record Identifier: 9984240783102771

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