Relative motions between Eurasia and North America in the Bering Sea region

• Main Authors: Harbert, W, Frei, LS, Cox, A, Engebretson, DC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Bering Shelf; Khatyrka; Anadyr'; Alaska
• Online Access: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13589/; http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13589/1/licence.txt

Knowledge of the relative motion of the North American and Eurasian plates during the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic provides insight into the observed timing and style of deformational events in the Bering Sea region. Periods of strong convergence from ≈ 70 to ≈ 50 Ma (Maastrichtian to Paleocene) are c...