Active Tectonics In Southern Alaska And The Role Of The Yakutat Block Constrained By Gps Measurements

• Main Author: Elliott, Julie
• Other Authors: Freymueller, Jeff
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Geophysics; Plate tectonics; Canada; Fairbanks; Fairweather; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Queen Charlotte; glacier; glacier*; Yakutat; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9080

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011 GPS data from southern Alaska and the northern Canadian Cordillera have helped redefine the region's tectonic landscape. Instead of a comparatively simple interaction between the Pacific and North American plates, with relative motion ac...