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Taku

Basement domain in the Alaska

Geologic information

Region Alaska
Crust
Formation age: 380 Ma
Accretion
Type: Collisional
Age: 140 Ma
Notes Continental rise

Geographic extent

Haines, Juneau, Ketchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan, Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon, Wrangell-Petersburg

Bibliographic references

Rubin, C.M., and Saleeby, J.B., 1991, Tectonic framework of the upper Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic Alava sequence—A revised view of the polygenetic Taku terrane in southern southeast Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 881–893.Gehrels, G.E., and Berg, H.C., 1994, Geology of southeastern Alaska, in Plafker, George, and Berg, H.C., eds., The geology of Alaska: Geological Society of America Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 451–468.