Crustal-scale structural architecture, shortening, and exhumation of an active, eroding orogenic wedge (Chugach/St Elias Range, southern Alaska)

• Main Authors: Meigs, Andrew, Johnston, Sarah, Garver, John, Spotila, James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Yakutat; Alaska
• Online Access: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/tx31qk28z

Active mountain building associated with the accretion of the Yakutat microplate (YT) in southern Alaska is characterized through the combination of a new balanced cross section and new low-temperature cooling ages. This analysis constrains the amount and timing of shortening, the spatial and tempor...