Crustal structure of Wrangellia and adjacent terranes inferred from geophysical studies along a transect through the northern Talkeetna Mountains
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Published:January 01, 2007
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Jonathan M.G. Glen, Jeanine Schmidt, Louise Pellerin, Darcy K. McPhee, J. Michael O'Neill, 2007. "Crustal structure of Wrangellia and adjacent terranes inferred from geophysical studies along a transect through the northern Talkeetna Mountains", 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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Recent investigations of the Talkeetna Mountains in south-central Alaska were undertaken to study the region's framework geophysics and to reinterpret structures and crustal composition. Potential field (gravity and magnetic) and magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected along northwest-trending profiles as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's Talkeetna Mountains transect project. The Talkeetna Mountains transect area comprises eight 1:63,360 quadrangles (∼9500 km2) in the Healy and Talkeetna Mountains 1° × 3° sheets that span four major lithostratigraphic terranes (Glen et al., this volume) including the Wrangellia and Peninsular terranes and two Mesozoic overlap assemblages inboard (northwest) of Wrangellia....
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Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin: Crustal Evolution of Southern Alaska

GeoRef
- Alaska
- crust
- data acquisition
- data processing
- discontinuities
- faults
- geophysical methods
- geophysical surveys
- geotraverses
- gravity field
- magnetic field
- magnetotelluric methods
- models
- potential field
- Southern Alaska
- structural analysis
- surveys
- Talkeetna Mountains
- tectonostratigraphic units
- terranes
- thrust faults
- United States
- Wrangellia
- south-central Alaska
- Peninsular Terrane
- northern Talkeetna Mountains
- Talkeetna suture zone