Global plate motion models provide a spatial and temporal framework for geological data
and have been effective tools for exploring processes occurring at the earth's surface …

▪ Abstract The Cordilleran orogen of western North America is a segment of the Circum-
Pacific orogenic belt where subduction of oceanic lithosphere has been underway along a …

In this chapter we present a brief overview of major aspects of the geology and tectonic
evolution of Alaska. Our objective has been to incorporate the lithologic, structural …

Yukon‐Tanana Terrane (YTT) underlies much of central and western Yukon and east central
Alaska. Its history and tectonic evolution, particularly prior to mid‐Mesozoic time, has been …

Estimates of shear resistance associated with lithospheric thrusting and convergence
represent lower bounds on the force necessary to promote trench formation. Three …

Abstract The allochthonous, pericratonic Yukon-Tanana terrane (YTT) underlies much of
southwest Yukon, easternmost Alaska and the Coast and Cassiar mountains of northern BC …

Exotic and far‐traveled oceanic crustal rocks of the Cache Creek terrane (CC) are bordered
by less exotic Quesnel (QN) and Stikine (ST) arc terranes to the east, north, and west. All of …

Regionally metamorphosed and deformed greenschist and amphibolite facies
metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks of Paleozoic and Proterozoic (?) protolith age …

The structural architecture of Alaska is the product of a complex history of deformation along
both the Cordilleran and Arctic margins of North America involving oceanic plates …

We examine the structure of the Denali fault system in the crust and upper mantle using
double-difference tomography, P-wave receiver functions, and analysis (spatial distribution …