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Wrangellia
Basement domain in the Alaska
Geologic information
Region
Alaska
Crust
Type:
Oceanic arc
Formation age:
310 Ma
Accretion
Type:
Collisional
Age:
80 Ma
Notes
Peninsula arc
Geographic extent
Kenai Peninsula
,
Matanuska-Susitna
,
Valdez-Cordova
,
Yakutat
Bibliographic references
Aleinikoff, J.N., Plafker, G., and Nokleberg, W.J., 1988, Middle Pennsylvanian plutonic rocks along the southern margin of the Wrangellia Terrane, in Galloway, J.P., and Hamilton, T.D., eds., Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey during 1987: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1016, p. 110–113.
Glen, J.M.G., Schmidt, J., Pellerin, L., McPhee, D.K., and O’Neill, J.M., 2007, Crustal structure of Wrangellia and adjacent terranes inferred from geophysical studies along a transect through the northern Talkeetna Mountains, in Ridgway, K.D., Trop, J.M., Glen, J.M.G., and O’Neill, J.M., eds., Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Crustal evolution of southern Alaska: Geological Society of America Special Paper 431, p. 21–41.
Greene, A.R., Scoates, J.S., Weis, D., Katvala, E.C., Israel, S., and Nixon, G.T., 2010, The architecture of oceanic plateaus revealed by the volcanic stratigraphy of the accreted Wrangellia oceanic plateau: Geosphere, v. 6, p. 47–73.