Analysis of detrital zircon fission track ages of the Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group and Paleogene Orca Group in Western Prince William Sound Alaska

• Main Author: Carlson, Benjamin Morris
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Union | Digital Works 2012
• Subjects: zircon; thermal dynamics; Alaska; terrane; Geology; Anchorage; Hidden Bay; Montague; Pacific; Orca; Yakutat
• Online Access: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/784; https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1824&context=theses

The Chugach-Prince William (CPW) composite terrane is a Mesozoic-Tertiary accretionary complex that is well exposed for ~2200 km in southern Alaska and is inferred to be one of the thickest accretionary complexes in the world. Detrital zircon in the flysch of the CPW record the thermal evolution and...