U-Pb dating of detrital zircon from turbidites of the Chugach and Prince William terranes, Alaska: Implications for the significance of the Contact fault system as a terrane boundary

• Main Author: Malik, Alysala
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Carleton Digital Commons 2019
• Subjects: Contact fault; Prince William Sound; Valdez Group; Orca Group; Alaska; U-Pb dataing; Jack Bay; Orca
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/comps/2412

The Contact fault system has traditionally been viewed as the terrane boundary between the Chugach and Prince William terranes in southern Alaska. It is thought to divide the Campanian-Maastrichtian Valdez Group from the Paleocene-Eocene Orca Group in an arcuate trace across Prince William Sound (PW...