Preliminary description of the Late Silurian-Early Devonian Klakas Orogeny in the southern Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska

• Main Authors: Gehrels, George E., Saleeby, Jason B., Berg, Henry C.
• Other Authors: Stevens, Calvin H.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists 1983
• Subjects: Prince of Wales Island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/53895/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/53895/1/Saleeby_1983p131.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150120-140541302

The Klakas orogeny is a Late Silurian-Early Devonian deformational, metamorphic, and mountain-building event that marks a major change in the geologic history of the southern Alexander terrane. During Ordovician-Silurian time this region was a marine volcano-plutonic province in which volcani-clasti...