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Basement domains of the conterminous US and Alaska
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Yakutat-Pamplona
Basement domain in the Alaska
Geologic information
Region
Alaska
Crust
Type:
Large igneous province
Formation age:
55 Ma
Accretion
Type:
Collisional/StrSlip
Age:
50-0 Ma
Notes
Oceanic plateau, Yakutat block
Geographic extent
Kenai Peninsula
,
Valdez-Cordova
Bibliographic references
Plafker, George, Moore, J.C., and Winkler, G.R., 1994, Geology of the southern Alaska margin: in Plafker, George, and Berg, H.C., eds., The geology of Alaska: Geological Society of America Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 389–450.
Worthington, L.L., Van Avendonk, H.J.A., Gulick, S.P.S., Christeson, G.L., and Pavlis, T.L., 2012, Crustal structure of the Yakutat terrane and the evolution of subduction and collision in southern Alaska: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 117, B01102; doi: 10.1029/2011JB008493.
