The Alaskan and Northern Canadian Cordillera: Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Petrology, and Tectonics
The Alaskan and Northern Canadian Cordillera: Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Petrology, and Tectonics
Session ID#: 282744
Session Description:
The Alaskan and northern Canadian Cordillera, stretching from British Columbia and southeast Alaska to the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas, is a seismogenic region consisting of accreted terranes and large-offset faults, long-lived subduction, past and present magmatism, multiple orogenic episodes, and a mantle with an array of inherited structures and striking velocity variations. Recent studies in the area as well as large-scale networks (e.g. USArray, NOTA) have generated new data sets and results and the region has been identified as having world-class science questions to be targeted by future multidisciplinary/multi-sensor arrays. We welcome contributions on the geology, geochemistry, geophysics, petrology, and tectonics of the region (including the subduction zone and volcanic arc), and encourage reports from the many recent and ongoing studies as well as integrative summaries of the region.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
- G - Geodesy
- S - Seismology
- V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:
1209 Tectonic deformation [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
3621 Mantle processes [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
8108 Continental tectonics: compressional [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Julie Elliott, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Trevor Waldien
Conveners: Adrian Manley Bender, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, United States, Vera Schulte-Pelkum, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States and Trevor Waldien
Student/Early Career Convener: Trevor Waldien, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Geology and Geological Engineering, Rapid City, United States and Trevor Waldien
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