Tectonic evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and adjacent landmasses / edited by Elizabeth L. Miller, Arthur Grantz and Simon L. Klemperer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Elizabeth L., 1951-

Grantz, Arthur, 1927-2021.

Klemperer, Simon.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 360.

Special paper ; 360

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Structural--Alaska.

Geology, Structural.

Geology, Structural--Russia (Federation)--Russian Far East.

Geology--Bering Sea Region.

Geology.

Geology--Chukchi Sea Region.

Russia (Federation)--Russian Far East.

Alaska.

Physical Description:

ix, 387 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (3 folded, some color) ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Geological Society of America, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Crustal structure of the Bering and Chukchi shelves: Deep seismic reflection profiles across the North American continent between Alaska and Russia / Simon L. Klemperer, Elizabeth L. Miller, Arthur Grantz, David W. Scholl, the Bering-Chukchi Working Group 1

2. Crustal structure across the Bering Strait, Alaska: Onshore recordings of a marine seismic survey / Lorraine W. Wolf, Robert C. McCaleb, David B. Stone, Thomas M. Brocher, Kazuya Fujita, Simon L. Klemperer 25

3. Structure and stratigraphy of the Hanna Trough, U.S. Chukchi Shelf, Alaska / Kirk W. Sherwood, Peter P. Johnson, James D. Craig, Susan A. Zerwick, Richard T. Lothamer, Dennis K. Thurston, Sally B. Hurlbert 39

4. Biostratigraphic evidence for the prerift position of the North Slope, Alaska, and Arctic Islands, Canada, and Sinemurian incipient rifting of the Canada Basin / Michael B. Mickey, Alan P. Byrnes, Hideyo Haga 67

5. Origin of the Lisburne Hills-Herald Arch structural belt: Stratigraphic, structural, and fission-track evidence from the Cape Lisburne area, northwestern Alaska / Thomas E. Moore, Trevor A. Dumitru, Karen E. Adams, Susan N. Witebsky, Anita G. Harris 77

6. Deformation and exhumation of the Mount Igikpak region, central Brooks Range, Alaska / J. Toro, P.B. Gans, William C. McClelland, Trevor A. Dumitru 111

7. Orthogonal flow directions in extending continental crust: An example from the Kigluaik gneiss dome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska / Jeffrey M. Amato, Elizabeth L. Miller, Kimberly A. Hannula 133

8. Cretaceous mid-crustal metamorphism and exhumation of the Koolen gneiss dome, Chukotka Peninsula, northeastern Russia / Vyacheslav V. Akinin, Andrew T. Calvert 147

9. Evolution of crust and mantle beneath the Bering Sea region: Evidence from xenoliths and late Cenozoic basalts / Karl R. Wirth, Jeffrey Grandy, Katherine Kelley, Seth Sadofsky 167

10. Constraints on the age of formation of seismically reflective middle and lower crust beneath the Bering Shelf: SHRIMP zircon dating of xenoliths from Saint Lawrence Island / Elizabeth L. Miller, Trevor R. Ireland, Simon L. Klemperer, Karl R. Wirth, Vyacheslav V. Akinin, Thomas M. Brocher 195

11. South Anyui suture, northeast Arctic Russia: Facts and problems / Sergei D. Sokolov, Grigoriy Ye. Bondarenko, Odin L. Morozov, Vladimir A. Shekhovtsov, Sergei P. Glotov, Alexander V. Ganelin, Igor R. Kravchenko-Berezhnoy 209

12. Jurassic-Cretaceous history of the Omolon massif, northeastern Russia: Geologic and paleomagnetic evidence / Alexei N. Didenko, Grigoriy Ye. Bondarenko, Sergei D. Sokolov, Igor R. Kravchenko-Berezhnoy 225

13. Paleomagnetic paleolatitudes for Upper Devonian rocks of the Omolon massif, northeastern Russia / Evgenii Kolesov, David B. Stone 243

14. Seismicity of Chukotka, northeastern Russia / Kazuya Fujita, Kevin G. Mackey, Robert C. McCaleb, Larissa V. Gunbina, Valentin N. Kovalev, Valery S. Imaev, Vladimir N. Smirnov 259

15. Paleozoic links among some Alaskan accreted terranes and Siberia based on megafossils / Robert B. Blodgett, David M. Rohr, A.J. Boucot 273

16. Lithostratigraphic, conodont, and other faunal links between lower Paleozoic strata in northern and central Alaska and northeastern Russia / Julie A. Dumoulin, Anita G. Harris, Mussa Gagiev, Dwight C. Bradley, John E. Repetski 291

17. Tectonic setting of Mesozoic magmatism: A comparison between northeastern Russia and the North American Cordillera / Elizabeth L. Miller, Mikhail Gelman, Leonid Parfenov, Jeremy Hourigan 313

18. Plate kinematic evolution of the present Arctic region since the Ordovician / Lawrence A. Lawver, Arthur Grantz, Lisa M. Gahagan 333

19. Geographic information systems compilation of geophysical, geologic, and tectonic data for the Bering Shelf, Chukchi Sea, Arctic margin, and adjacent landmasses / Simon L. Klemperer, Mark L. Greninger, Warren J. Nokleberg 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

3 fold. maps (part col.) and CD-ROM in pockets in front and back of book.

ISBN:

0813723604

OCLC:

49519225