Abstract The 2002 M w 7.9 Denali Fault earthquake, Alaska, provides an unparalleled
opportunity to investigate in quantitative detail the regional hillslope mass-wasting response …

The geological record of the past several thousand years contains valuable information for
evaluating the earthquake potential of the earth's major fault systems. Geologists have …

Studies of interseismic strain accumulation are crucial to our understanding of continental
deformation, the earthquake cycle and seismic hazard. By mapping small amounts of …

South-central Alaska is defined as the region bounded by the Kuskokwim Mountains to the
northwest, the basins north of the Alaska Range to the north, the Canadian border to the …

Major portions of the eastern Alaska Range, south of the Denali fault, in the McCarthy,
Nabesna, Mount Hayes, and eastern Healy quadrangles, consist predominantly of the …

We have analyzed 6 years of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data beginning in
1984 from a network of sites in Alaska, the Yukon, and the conterminous United States. The …

Glaciers cover only about 5 percent of Alaska today, but they spread over as much as half of
the state during the most widespread advances of the late Cenozoic (Fig. 1). Both modern …

Abstract The St. Elias, Alaska, earthquake (magnitude 7.1 M s) on February 28, 1979,
occurred along the complex Pacific–North American plate boundary between Yakutat Bay …

Alaska spans 4,800 km of the active boundary between the Pacific and North American
Plates and is the site of three of the world's ten largest earthquakes of this century. The …

The configuration of the Aleutian and Wrangell Wadati‐Benioff zones in southern Alaska
between longitudes 142° W and 148° W is determined from regionally recorded …