Late Cenozoic Exhumation in a Transpressional Setting: Fairweather Range, Alaska

Deformation in southern Alaska is controlled by the accretion and partial subduction of the Yakutat terrane as margin-parallel motion transitions to subduction. Recent studies have shown that deformation in the St. Elias orogen, at the northern end of the terrane, accommodates a large portion of c...

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Main Author: McAleer, Ryan Joseph
Other Authors: Geosciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43526
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07032006-104340/