Author: Paul C. LyonsPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722101
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Paleoenvironmental and Tectonic Controls in Coal-forming Basins of the United States
Author: Paul C. LyonsPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722101
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey During ...
Author: Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1992
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: Helaine W. MarkewichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Geologic Report for the Gulf of Alaska Planning Area
Author: Ronald F. TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Regional, petroleum and shallow geology of the Gulf of Alaska geological province, including geohazards (earthquakes, vulcanism, extreme climatic factors) and environmental conditions. Includes historical data on hydrocarbon exploration and development.
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author: 1987 Annual Report on Alaska's Mineral Resources
Author: 1987 Annual Report on Alaska's Mineral Resources
Author: Donald J. OrthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin
Author: Kenneth D. RidgwayPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
"The convergent margin of southern Alaska is considered one of the type areas for understanding the growth of continental margins through collisional tectonic processes. Collisional processes that formed this margin were responsible for multiple episodes of sedimentary basin development, subduction complex growth, magmatism, and deformation. Two main collisional episodes shaped this Mesozoic-Cenozoic continental margin. The first event was the Mesozoic collision of the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane. This event represents the largest addition of juvenile crust to western North America in the past 100 m.y. The second event is the ongoing collision of the Yakutat terrane along the southeastern margin of Alaska. This Cenozoic event has produced the highest coast mountain range on Earth (Saint Elias Mountains), the Wrangell continental arc, and sedimentary basins throughout southern Alaska. Active collisional processes continue to shape the southern margin of Alaska, mainly through crustal shortening and strike-slip deformation, large-magnitude earthquakes, and rapid uplift and exhumation of mountain belts and high sedimentation rates in adjacent sedimentary basins. This volume contains 24 articles that integrate new geophysical and geologic data, including many field-based studies, to better link the sedimentary, structural, geochemical, and magmatic processes that are important for understanding the development of collisional continental margins."--Publisher's website.