The A-2 Kodiak to Kuskokwim Transect crosses the seismically active eastern Aleutian Trench in the Gulf of Alaska, traverses the marine and insular forearc region that includes southern Kodiak Island and Shelikof Strai t, traverses the Alaska Peninsula which includes the modern Aleutian Are, drops into the Bristol Bay and lowland area of the Bering Sea, and comes ashore in the southwestern Kuskokwim Mountains. Thus the A-2 transect crosses an ocean to continent transition from the oceanic crust of the north Pacific Basin to the interior cordillera of Alaska. This transition is made across a series of fossil arc-trench...