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- Yakutat_Block abstract "The Yakutat Block is a terrane in the process of accreting to the North American continent along the south central coast of Alaska. It has been displaced about 600 km northward since the Cenozoic along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault system.The Yakutat Block is bounded on the northeast by the Fairweather Fault, and on the north by a system of thrust and possibly strike-slip faults in the Chugach Mountains and St. Elias Mountains. The Yakutat Block is bounded on its southwest side by an as yet undefined underwater geologic feature known as the Transition Zone. Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements indicate that the Yakutat block has a distinctive velocity relative to both the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Thus it appears to be a terrane in the process of accreting rather than a block already sutured on to the Pacific or North American plate. Relative to North America, the Yakutat Block moves at a rate of about 45 mm/yr to the north northwest, along the Fairweather fault. There is about 20 mm/yr of contraction between the Yakutat block and the Pacific plate, which is probably accommodated on an offshore structure. South of Yakutat Bay, the boundary between the Yakutat block and the North American plate is once again along the Fairweather Fault. North of Yakutat Bay, between Yakutat Bay and the Copper River/Wrangell Mountains region, about 40 mm/yr of contraction is taken up by compression, accommodated by faults within the continental crust. The convergence rate is among the highest in the world within continental crust, surpassing even that which is occurring between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate which is lifting the Himalayas.".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageExternalLink 2002AGUFM.T12E..02F.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageID "15071901".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageLength "2147".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageOutDegree "15".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageRevisionID "380293986".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Accretion_(geology).
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Alaska.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Alaska.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Category:Terranes.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Chugach_Mountains.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Eurasian_Plate.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Global_Positioning_System.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Himalayas.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Australian_Plate.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink North_American_Plate.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_Plate.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Queen_Charlotte_Fault.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Elias_Mountains.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLink Terrane.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLinkText "Yakutat Block".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageWikiLinkText "Yakutat terrane".
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord_missing.
- Yakutat_Block wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US-geology-stub.
- Yakutat_Block subject Category:Geology_of_Alaska.
- Yakutat_Block subject Category:Terranes.
- Yakutat_Block hypernym Terrane.
- Yakutat_Block type Place.
- Yakutat_Block type Fragment.
- Yakutat_Block comment "The Yakutat Block is a terrane in the process of accreting to the North American continent along the south central coast of Alaska. It has been displaced about 600 km northward since the Cenozoic along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault system.The Yakutat Block is bounded on the northeast by the Fairweather Fault, and on the north by a system of thrust and possibly strike-slip faults in the Chugach Mountains and St. Elias Mountains.".
- Yakutat_Block label "Yakutat Block".
- Yakutat_Block sameAs Q8047257.
- Yakutat_Block sameAs m.03hglhf.
- Yakutat_Block sameAs Q8047257.
- Yakutat_Block wasDerivedFrom Yakutat_Block?oldid=380293986.
- Yakutat_Block isPrimaryTopicOf Yakutat_Block.