From sand grains to tectonic plates: sedimentary basin

Highly deforming regions – Abundant seismicity, high gradients in the modeled velocity field, high strain rate magnitudes • Relatively rigid regio...
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Summary of kinematic results A new kinematic model for Alaska and western Canada Old Alaskan paradigm

New perspective on Alaska

Yakutat microplate

500 km



Highly deforming regions

Finzel et al., in review

– Abundant seismicity, high gradients in the modeled velocity field, high strain rate magnitudes



Relatively rigid regions – Sparse seismicity, very small gradients in the modeled velocity field, low strain rate magnitudes