Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin: Crustal Evolution of Southern Alaska

The restricted Gemuk Group: A Triassic to Lower Cretaceous succession in southwestern Alaska
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Published:January 01, 2007
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Marti L. Miller, Dwight C. Bradley, Thomas K. Bundtzen, Robert B. Blodgett, Emile A. Pessagno, Jr., Robert D. Tucker, Anita G. Harris, 2007. "The restricted Gemuk Group: A Triassic to Lower Cretaceous succession in southwestern Alaska", Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin: Crustal Evolution of Southern Alaska, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeffrey M. Trop, Jonathan M.G. Glen, J. Michael O'Neill
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New data from an Upper Triassic to Lower Cretaceous deep marine succession—the herein reinstated and restricted Gemuk Group—provide a vital piece of the puzzle for unraveling southwestern Alaska's tectonic history. First defined by Cady et al. in 1955, the Gemuk Group soon became a regional catchall unit that ended up as part of at least four different terranes. In this paper we provide the first new data in nearly half a century from the Gemuk Group in the original type area in Taylor Mountains quadrangle and from contiguous rocks to the north in Sleetmute quadrangle. Discontinuous exposure, hints of...
- absolute age
- Alaska
- Bivalvia
- Carnian
- chemically precipitated rocks
- chert
- clastic rocks
- Conodonta
- dates
- geochemistry
- graywacke
- Hettangian
- igneous rocks
- Invertebrata
- Jurassic
- lava
- Lower Jurassic
- lower Liassic
- mapping
- Mesozoic
- microfossils
- middle Liassic
- Mollusca
- nesosilicates
- Norian
- orthosilicates
- Oxfordian
- paleogeography
- pillow lava
- Pliensbachian
- Protista
- pyroclastics
- Radiolaria
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentation
- shale
- silicates
- siltstone
- Sinemurian
- Sleetmute Quadrangle
- Southwestern Alaska
- stratigraphic units
- Toarcian
- Triassic
- tuff
- U/Pb
- United States
- Upper Jurassic
- upper Liassic
- Upper Triassic
- volcanic rocks
- volcanism
- zircon
- zircon group
- Taylor Mountains Quadrangle
- Gemuk Group