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Thrust-breakthrough of folds southwest of Galbraith Lake, central Brooks Range, Alaska
Title:
Thrust-breakthrough of folds southwest of Galbraith Lake, central Brooks Range, Alaska
JLCTITLE245:
by Elizabeth A. Grischkowsky.
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Publication Information:
2002.
Physical Description:
xii, 106 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
General Note:
"May 2002."

Three folded plates in pocket.
Dissertaton Note:
M.S. University of Alaska, Fairbanks 2002
Abstract:
"Detailed mapping of a 32 square-kilometer area in the fold-and-thrust belt of the north-central Brooks Range indicates that fault-related folds in the Lisburne Limestone formed as detachment folds and were subsequently cut by thrust faults. Thrust faulting resulted in a duplex structure with a floor thrust in the Kayak Shale and a roof thrust in the Siksikpuk Formation. The linking thrusts of the duplex dip toward the hinterland while the floor and roof thrusts dip toward the foreland indicating that the duplex has been tilted by underlying structures. I constructed models for the sub-lisburne structure to account for the structural geometry observed in the study area. Duplexing of the Kanayut Conglomerate is the most likely cause of the forward tilt, but thickening of the Kayak Shale or deformation beneath the basal thrust of the Endicott Mountains allochthon may also contribute"--Leaf iii.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-90).
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Additional Physical Form Available:
Online version available via The University of Alaska Fairbanks https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/6282
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