Major intercontinental dextral strike-slip fault in North America
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Tectonic map of Alaska and northwestern Canada showing main faults and historic earthquakesDenali Fault and the Denali National Park boundary
The Denali Fault is a major intracontinental dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault in western North America, extending from northwestern British Columbia, Canada to the central region of the U.S. state of Alaska.[1]
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The DenaliFault is a major intracontinental dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault in western North America, extending from northwestern British Columbia...
topography of Denali is related to the complex structural relationships created by the right-lateral DenaliFault and DenaliFault Bend. The DenaliFault is caused...
Washington State. The Denali-Totschunda fault is a major dextral (right lateral) strike-slip system, similar in scale to the San Andreas fault system. In Alaska...
Denali fault systems, have been tectonically active since the Cretaceous period as strike-slip faults. The Denalifault to the west and the Tintina fault to...
subsurface fault rupture may be long and spread surface damage across the entire rupture zone. As an example, in the magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake of...
Denali National Park and Preserve, formerly known as Mount McKinley National Park, is a national park and preserve located in Interior Alaska, United States...
ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault (1857, 1906), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey (1939), and the DenaliFault in Alaska (2002),...
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes...
This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...
Totschunda Fault is a major active dextral (right-lateral) continental strike-slip fault in southeastern Alaska. It forms a link between the DenaliFault to the...
movement on the Kunlun fault 2002 Denali earthquake, magnitude Mw 7.9 associated with strike-slip movement on the DenaliFault 2008 Sichuan earthquake...
from more than 800 miles (1,300 km) away, and the 2002 7.9 magnitude Denalifault earthquake 2,000 miles (3,200 km) away in Alaska that altered the activity...
Mount McKinley disaster occurred in July 1967 when seven climbers died on Denali (then still officially known as Mount McKinley) while attempting to descend...
to the east. The range is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and the DenaliFault that runs along its southern edge is responsible for many major earthquakes...
terrane addition is the DenaliFault, which curves through south-central Alaska. The DenaliFault bends just north of Denali. The combination of the subduction...
Mountain Trench in the northern United States and the Kaltag Fault in Alaska. DenaliFault Rocky Mountain Trench Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province...
place on a single fault, but in many cases the rupture starts on one fault before jumping to another, sometimes repeatedly. The 2002 Denali earthquake initiated...
a doctoral researcher, where she studied the earthquake cycle at the DenaliFault. During her doctoral research supervised by Barry Parsons and Tim J....
quakes occur on the fault on a 700-year cycle. The Lake Clark fault several hundred miles to the north is sub-parallel to the Denalifault and considered to...
Yukon River drainage, and to the south is the Copper River drainage. The DenaliFault approximately bisects the pass. Castner Glacier is located on its southern...
magmatism, rapid uplift and unroofing north of the Denalifault zone, formation of transform transgressional faults, and subduction of the pacific and Yakutat...
triggered seismicity in Yellowstone National Park produced by the 2002 M 7.9 Denalifault earthquake, Alaska". Geology. 32 (6): 537–540. Bibcode:2004Geo....32...
is one of the two major fault zones paralleling the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, the other being the DenaliFault in the Yukon, the U.S. state...
Yukon has scattered patches of permafrost. Two major faults, the DenaliFault and the Tintina Fault have created major valleys called trenches: the Shakwak...
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