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Arkle, J.C., Armstrong, P.A., Haeussler, P.J., Michael, G.P., Hartman, S., Sendziak, K.L., and Brush, J.A., 2013, Focused exhumation in the syntaxis of the western Chugach Mountains and Prince William Sound, Alaska: GSA Bulletin, v. 125, p. 776-793, doi: 10.1130/B30738.1

Benowitz, J.A., Layer, P.W., Armstrong, P., Perry, S.E., Haeussler, P.J., Fitzgerald, P.G., and VanLaningham, S., 2011, Spatial variations in focused exhumation along a continental-scale strike-slip fault: The Denali fault of the eastern Alaska Range: Geosphere, v. 7, p. 455-467, doi: 10.1130/GES00589.1

Benowitz, J. A., Haeussler, P. J., Layer, P. W., O'Sullivan, P. B., Wallace, W. K., and Gillis, R. J., 2012, Cenozoic tectono-thermal history of the Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska: Paleocene-Eocene ridge subduction, decreasing relief, and late Neogene faulting: Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., v. 13, Q04009, doi: 10.1029/2011GC003951

Benowitz, J. A., Roseke, S.M., Regan, S.P., Waldien, T.S., Elliott, J.L., and O’Sullivan P.B., 2022, Large-scale, crustal-block vertical extrusion between the Hines Creek and Denali faults coeval with slip localization on the Denali fault since ca. 45 Ma, Hayes Range, Alaska, USA: Geosphere, v. 18, p. 1030-1054, doi: 10.1130/GES02466.1

Berger, A.L., and Spotila, J.A., 2008, Denudation and deformation in a glaciated orogenic wedge: The St. Elias orogen, Alaska: Geology, v. 36, p. 523-526, doi: 10.1130/G24883A.1

Berger, A.L., Spotila, J.A., Chapman, J.B., Pavlis, T.L., Enkelmann, E., Ruppert, N.A., and Buscher, J.T., 2008, Architecture, kinematics, and exhumation of a convergent orogenic wedge: A thermochronological investigation of tectonic–climatic interactions within the central St. Elias orogen, Alaska: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 270, p. 13-24, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.034

Box, S.E., Moll-Stalcup, E.J., Frost, T.P., and Murphy, J.M., 1993, Preliminary geologic map of the Bethel and Southern Russian Mission quadrangles, Southwestern Alaska: USGS, doi: doi.org/10.3133/mf2226A

Buscher, J.T., Berger, A.L., and Spotila, J.A., 2008, Exhumation in the Chugach-Kenai Mountain Belt Above the Aleutian Subduction Zone, Southern Alaska: Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska, v. 179, doi: doi.org/10.1029/179GM08

Clendenen, W.S., Fisher, D., and Byrne, T., 2003, Cooling and exhumation history of the Kodiak accretionary prism, southwest Alaska: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 371, doi: doi.org/10.1029/179GM08

Cook, R.D., Crawford, M.L., Omar, G.I., and Crawford, W.A., 1991, Magmatism and deformation, southern Revillagigedo Island, southeastern Alaska: GSA Bulletin, v. 103, p. 829-841, doi: doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1991)

Dusel-Bacon, C., and Murphy, J.M., 2001, Apatite fission-track evidence of widespread Eocene heating and exhumation in the Yukon-Tanana Upland, interior Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 38, p. 1191-1204, doi: doi.org/10.1139/e01-015

Dusel-Bacon, C., Bacon, C.R., O’Sullivan, P.B., and Day, W.C., 2016, Apatite fission-track evidence for regional exhumation in the subtropical Eocene, block faulting, and localized fluid flow in east-central Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 53, p. 260-280, doi: doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0138

Enkelmann, E., Zeitler, P.K., Garver, J.I., Pavlis, T.L., and Hooks, B.P., 2010, The thermochronological record of tectonic and surface process interaction at the Yakutat–North American collision zone in southeast Alaska: American Journal of Sciences, v. 31, p. 231-260, doi: doi.org/10.2475/04.2010.01

Enkelmann, E., Valla, P.G., and Champagnac, J.D., 2015, Low-temperature thermochronology of the Yakutat plate corner, St. Elias Range (Alaska): bridging short-term and long-term deformation: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 113, p. 23-38, doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.019

Enkelmann, E., Piestrzeniewicz, A., Falkowski, S., Stübner, K., and Ehlers, T.A., 2017, Thermochronology in southeast Alaska and southwest Yukon: Implications for North American Plate response to terrane accretion: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 457, p. 348-358, doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.032

Fitzgerald, P.G., Sorkhabi, R.B., Redfield, T.F., and Stump, E., 1995, Uplift and denudation of the central Alaska Range: A case study in the use of apatite fission track thermochronology to determine absolute uplift parameters: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 100, p. 20175-20191, doi: doi.org/10.1029/95JB02150

Frohman, R.A., 2014, Identification and evolution of tectonic faults in the greater Fairbanks Area, Alaska [Ph.D. thesis]: University of Alaska Fairbanks, 248 p.

Hacker, B.R., Kelemen, P.B., Rioux, M., McWilliams, M.O., Gans, P.B., Reiners, P.W., Layer, P.W., Söderlund, U., and Vervoort, J.D., 2011, Thermochronology of the Talkeetna intraoceanic arc of Alaska: Ar/Ar, U-Th/He, Sm-Nd, and Lu-Hf dating: Tectonics, v. 30, TC1011, doi: doi.org/10.1029/2010TC002798

Haeussler, P.J., Armstrong, P.A., Liberty, L.M., Ferguson, K.M., Finn, S.P., Arkle, J.C., and Pratt, T.L., 2015, Focused exhumation along megathrust splay faults in Prince William Sound, Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 113, p. 8-22, doi: 0.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.013

Lease, R.O., 2018, Pliocene erosional pulse and glacier-landscape feedbacks in the western Alaska Range: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 497, p. 62-68, doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.009

Lease, R.O., Haeussler, P.J., Witter, R.C., Stockli, D.F., Bender, A.M., Kelsey, H.M., and O’Sullivan, P.B., 2021, Extreme Quaternary plate boundary exhumation and strike slip localized along the southern Fairweather fault, Alaska, USA: Geology, v. 49, p. 602-606, doi: doi.org/10.1130/G48464.1

Little, T.A., and Naeser, C.W., 1989, Tertiary tectonics of the Border Ranges Fault System, Chugach Mountains, Alaska: Deformation and uplift in a forearc setting: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 94, p. 4333-4359, doi: doi.org/10.1029/JB094iB04p04333

McAleer, R.J., Spotila, J.A., Enkelmann, E., and Berger, A.L., 2009, Exhumation along the Fairweather fault, southeastern Alaska, based on low-temperature thermochronometry: Tectonics, v. 28, TC1007, p. 1-17, doi: 10.1029/2007TC002240

Meigs, A., Johnston, S., Graver, J., and Spotila, J., 2008, Crustal-scale structural architecture, shortening, and exhumation of an active, eroding orogenic wedge (Chugach/St Elias Range, southern Alaska): Tectonics, v. 27, TC4003, 26 p., doi:10.1029/2007TC002168

Milde, E.R., 2014, Using Low-Temperature Thermochronology to Constrain the Role of the Totschunda Fault in Southeastern Alaskan Tectonics [MS thesis]: Syracuse University, 136 p.

O’Sullivan, P.B., and Currie, L.D., 1996, Thermotectonic history of Mt Logan, Yukon Territory, Canada: implications of multiple episodes of middle to late Cenozoic denudation: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 144, p. 251-261, doi: doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(96)00161-6

Perry, S.E., 2014, Thermoctonic evolution of the Alaska Range: low-temperature thermochronologic constraints [Ph.D. thesis]: Syracuse University, 845 p.

Riccio, S.J., Fitzgerald, P.G., Benowitz, J.A., and Roeske, S.M., 2014, The role of thrust faulting in the formation of the eastern Alaska Range: Thermochronological constraints from the Susitna Glacier Thrust Fault region of the intracontinental strike-slip Denali Fault system: Tectonics, v. 33, p. 2195-2217, doi: doi.org/10.1002/2014TC003646

Spotila, J.A., Bushcer, J.T., Meigs, A.J., and Reiners, P.W., 2004, Long-term glacial erosion of active mountain belts: Example of the Chugach-St. Elias Range, Alaska: Geology, v. 32, p. 501-504, doi: 10.1130/G20343.1

Terhune, P.J., Benowitz, J.A., Trop, J.M., O’Sullivan, P.B., Gillis, R.J., Gillis, J., and Freymueller, J.T., 2019, Cenozoic tectono-thermal history of the southern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska: Insights into a potentially alternating convergent and transform plate margin: Geosphere, v. 15, p. 1539-1576, doi: doi.org/10.1130/GES02008.1

Waldien, T.S., Roeske, S.M., Benowitz, J.A., Allen, W.K., Ridgway, K.D., and O’Sullivan, P.B., 2018, Late Miocene to Quaternary evolution of the McCallum Creek thrust system, Alaska: Insights for range-boundary thrusts in transpressional orogens: Geosphere, v. 14, p. 2379-2406, doi: doi.org/10.1130/GES01676.1

Waldien, T.S., Lease, R.O., Roeske S.M., Benowitz, J.A., and O’Sullivan, 2022, The role of preexisting upper plate strike-slip faults during long-lived (ca. 30 Myr) oblique flat slab subduction, southern Alaska: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 577, p. 117242, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117242

Warfel, T., 2018, Low Temperature Thermochronologic Constraints Across the East-Central Denali Fault: Evaluating Vertical Tectonics Along a Transpressive Orogen [MS thesis]: Syracuse University, 118 p.

Faults

Koehler, R.D., 2013, Quaternary Faults and Folds (QFF): Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Digital Data Series 3, http://doi.org/10.14509/qff

Alaska

Natural Earth, 2022, ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces (version: 5.1.1), https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-admin-1-states-provinces/