Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1683

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  SC Talkeetna Mts.

• Parent Project:

  Energy Resources Section projects

• Status:

  Active

• Description:

  Geologic mapping to understand the evolution of the Castle Mountain fault system and its role in the subsidence of the Matanuska and Cook Inlet forearc basins. Fieldwork conducted in 2022, 2023 and planned for 2024

• Project Date(s):

  2022 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Gillis, Robert J.

• DGGS section:

  Energy Resources

• Project Participants:

  Robert J. Gillis

• Stations/Samples:

  View list

Publications

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PIR 2024-1

Gillis, R.J., Trop, J.M., and Kuyl, Leo, 2024, Preliminary description and interpretation of the Doone Creek fault and associated structures: The potential offset and northeastward continuation of the Bruin Bay fault system in the south-central Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2024-1, 18 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31108

Posters and Presentations

Gillis, R.J. and others, 2023

Gillis, R.J., Trop, J.M., and Kuyl, Leo, 2023, The Doone Creek fault: A newly identified structure in the Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska, that belongs to a system of north- and northeast-trending faults that may delineate the Paleogene forearc basin boundary (poster): Alaska Geological Society Technical Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, April 22, 2023: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/31023