Plate Tectonics and the Structural Evolution of the Aleutian–Bering Sea Region

• Main Authors: Scholl, D. W., Buffington, E. C., Marlow, M. S.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: The Geological Society of America 1975
• Subjects: Aleutian Ridge; Bering Sea; Pacific; Kamchatka; Koryak; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/35093/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/35093/1/scan_2016-12-05_12-20-49.1.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE151-p1

The general aspects of the structural evolution of the Aleutian-Bering Sea region can be described in terms of plate tectonics. Involved in this model is the formation of the Aleutian Ridge in latest Cretaceous or earliest Tertiary time. The ridge is presumed to have formed in response to a southwar...