Geophysical insights into the Transition fault debate: Propagating strike slip in response to stalling Yakutat block subduction in the Gulf of Alaska

• Main Authors: Guliuck, Sean P.S., Lowe, Lindsay A, Pavlis, Terry l., Gardner, James V., Mayer, Larry A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2007
• Subjects: collision; Alaska; Yakutat; oceanic plateau; Transition fault; subduction; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Fairweather; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Queen Charlotte
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/91; http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/35/8/763.abstract

On the basis of faulting mapped on seismic reflection and bathymetric data, seismicity, current plate motions, and evidence that the Yakutat block may be anomalously thick, we propose a tectonic model for Yakutat-Pacific interactions, including the often-debated Transition fault. To the east, deform...