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Taku
Basement domain in the Alaska
Geologic information
Region
Alaska
Crust
Type:
Passive margin
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.