Dike swarms on Seward Peninsula, Alaska, and their implications for the kinematics of Cretaceous extension in the

• Main Authors: Bering Strait Region, Jeffrey M. Amato, Elizabeth L. Miller, James E. Wright, William C. Mcintosh
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Strait; Darby; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.534.7419; http://deptweb-p.nmsu.edu/~geology/amato/SPDikes.pdf

Abstract: Late Cretaceous dike swarms on Seward Peninsula, northwestern Alaska, represent the youngest local manifestation of a 115–75 Ma magmatic event in the Bering Strait region. Magmatism accompanied and followed high-grade metamorphism and ductile deformation. A Late Cretaceous extensional tect...