A comparison of mechanical thickness estimates from trough and seamount loading in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska

• Main Authors: Harris, Robert N., Chapman, David S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Gulf of Alaska; Queen Charlotte; Queen Charlotte Trough; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/8s45qb514

The southern portion of the Kodiak-Bowie seamonnt chain in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska presents a unique opportunity to investigate loading on young oceanic lithosphere. Oceanic lithosphere younger than 25 Ma is loaded both by sediments in a deep offshore trough and by seamount 100-200 km offsho...