Using GPlates to Help Refine the Transport History of the Yakutat Block, Alaska

• Main Author: Le, Nhan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Carleton Digital Commons 2021
• Subjects: Alaska; North America; Pacific Basin; plate reconstruction; tectonics; Pacific; Prince Rupert; Rupert; Yakutat
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/comps/2909

Alaska is made up of many allochthonous terranes that collided with and accreted to North America throughout the Cenozoic. The Yakutat terrane is a microplate that formed ~53 Ma as an oceanic plateau most likely along the Kula-Farallon ridge to the south and is currently colliding with North America...