Stratigraphic framework and detrital history of upper Triassic-Cretaceous strata in the northwestern Talkeetna Mountains, southern Alaska: A preserved record of arc accretion along a continental margin

• Main Author: Hampton, Brian A
• Other Authors: Ridgway, Kenneth D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Purdue University 2006
• Subjects: Geology; Caribou Pass; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3260020

Mesozoic strata of the northwestern Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska are located in a regional suture zone between the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane (composite island arc) and the former Mesozoic continental margin of North America (i.e., the Yukon-Tanana composite terrane)....